Partially Printed Document Signed three times by STEPHEN HOPKINS (1707-1785) American political leader and Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Hopkins served as Chief Justice and Governor of Colonial Rhode Island and was also Delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany and to the Continental Congress. One page, 12 ¾" x 15 ¾". Providence, R.I. November 20, 1733. The document serves as an " … Indenture … Between Thomas Hopkins of Scituate in the County of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England Husbandman of the one Part, and John Wanton, William Coddington, George Goulding, Jableel Brenton, Daniel Updike, and John Gardener all of Newport … " regarding a tract of land located in Scituate. All manuscript portions of text are accomplished entirely in Hopkins' hand. Tape repair to splits on verso. Some light toning. Overall Fine.
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Winslow Associates Catalog Auction
10:00 AM PT - Jul 26th, 2008
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