Spring Auction 2014
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/27/2014
Signer of the Declaration Of Independence Stephen Hopkins Pay Order Signed. One page, 6.5" x 4.25", Newport, May 12, 1755, ordering Thomas Richardson to pay George Lanton "sixty nine pounds six shillings & six pence . . . in full . . . for the French mens boat[?] & charge the same to the colony." Countersigned by Jonas Nichols, Thomas Cranston, and Peter Bours. Smoothed folds with tears and top corners ripped with yellowing.
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