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Lot 30

Sale 1250 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 - 700
Price Realized
$882
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KENTON, Simon (1755-1836). Manuscript receipt signed ("Simon Kenton"), 18 May 1817.


1p, approx. 7 3/4 x 4 in. housed under two-sided glass (dampstaining, creasing, toning). Docketed on verso.

Legendary frontiersman and soldier Simon Kenton signs a receipt acknowledging payment "received of Geo. Morton forty Dollars which is to be a credit against a judgement obtained by me against the sd Morton in the circuit court of Mason County on a bond of fourteen hundred Dollars bearing the Date the last of Feby or the first of March 1801 which judgement has bin enjoind by the sd Morton." 

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