1st – 3rd items: Three (3) State of TN land grants signed by Governor William Carroll (1788 – 1844) who served as the fifth Governor of TN twice, from 1821 to 1827 and again from 1829 to 1835. One grant awards Edward C Watson and his heirs six hundred acres in Davidson County, dated July […]
Lot 602: 6 Tennessee / NC Documents, 1791-1826, incl. Governor Signed Land Grants
1st item: 18th-century North Carolina document granting John Coulter 400 acres of land in Hawkins County, Tennessee (then North Carolina) along the south bank of the Holston River for the price of fifty shillings, signed twice by North Carolina Governor Alexander Martin (1740-1807), 1791. It is accompanied by a map of the property surveyed in […]
Lot 600: 7 Knoxville 18th Century Charles McClung signed Legal Documents
1st item: Summons issued to George Nevel to testify on behalf of the plaintiff Joseph Lea in the case of Lea vs. David Robertson, dated July 1796, the month after Tennessee was admitted as a state, and signed by County Clerk Charles McClung. On a pre-statehood form referring to Tennessee as "the Territory south of […]
Lot 601: 7 pcs 18th C TN Ephemera, incl. Gov. Signed & Nashville Survey Map
1st item: Archibald Roane (1759/60-1819), second Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1801 to 1803, and William Cocke (1748-1828) signed pre-statehood Knox county court document, written in regard to a land dispute between Jacob Vanhooser and Amos Byrd/Bird, dated 1794 and 1795. Signed "Wm. Cocke, attn," and three times en verso, "A. Roane." 13 1/4" H […]
Lot 599: 3 Presidential Land Grants, incl. Native American Chickasaw Pontotoc MS
1st item: President John Tyler (1790 – 1862) secretarial signed land grant dated June 28, 1842 granting the Chickasaw Indians one section of land located in "section thirty six, in Township Nine, of Range Five, West, containing six hundred and fifty-two acres and twelve hundredth of an acre, in the District of Lands subject to […]
Lot 598: 4 Presidential Land Grants, Mexican American War & KY Related
Four (4) Presidential land certificates, secretarial signed for James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce, and Millard Fillmore, granting land in Fayette, Missouri to John D. Miller and Wyatt Embry. 1st item: President Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (1850-1853), secretarial-signed land document issued in favor of John D. Miller of Montineau […]
Lot 597: Eckel/Taylor Family Archive, 10 Items incl. Missouri Settlement & Presidential
Archive of ten (10) items relating to the Eckel / Taylor family of Tennessee and Missouri. 1st item: Letter from Charles Paul to Joseph Eckel, 1841. Paul laments the death of President William Henry Harrison whom he regards as a "second Washington" and regrets not attending his inauguration. Paul also states: "The Whigs of Tennessee […]
Lot 596: Henry Clay Steel Engraving Portrait after John Wood Dodge
A large steel engraved portrait of Kentucky politician Henry Clay seated outdoors near Ashland, his home in Lexington, visible in the distance to Clay's left and also depicted in the vignette in the lower margin. Clay sits beneath a tree and is accompanied by his dog. The print was first published in 1843 as Clay […]
Lot 595: Lincoln Tea Advertising Bust
Scarce painted ceramic bust of President Abraham Lincoln, advertising premium for the Lincoln Proprietary Company's "Lincoln Tea." The bust is modeled after a circa 1860 bust of Lincoln acquired for the U.S. Senate chamber and depicts him late in life with beard, suit, and tie; "Lincoln Tea" is incised across the base. 18" H. Note: […]
Lot 593: English Elizabethan Possession Bill, Framed, Dated 1571
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I Bill of Possession document, ink on vellum, describing the Queen's granting of possession of the Manor of Northcote in Devon, formerly held by the Monastery of Breamore, to Thomas Myniffe, son and heir of John Myniffe, who held and rented the manor by Knight-service until his death. Housed in a […]
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