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ROBERT MORRIS, Signed Stock Certificate

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Gorgeous Quality "Robt Morris" Signed Stock Certificate

ROBERT MORRIS, Signer of the Declaration of Independence; Revolutionary War Financier.
March 23, 1795, Partly Printed Document Signed, "Robt Morris," as President of the North American Land Company, Philadelphia, 1 page, on laid watermarked paper measuring 9.5" x 12.5", Choice Extremely Fine. Countersigned by James Marshall (Morris' son-in-law, and brother of Chief Justice John Marshall). This magnificent document has a scalloped left edge, and is a stock certificate of the North American Land Company, for ten shares in the name of Thomas Russell, of Boston. Morris' large 3" long and extremely bold brown signature is found at lower right, with very little ink erosion. This is a nice looking, high quality piece ready for display.


Robert Morris arranged for financing supplies for Washington and his troops, was a member of the Continental Congress, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, founder and organizer of the Bank of North America, delegate to the Constitutional Congress, and U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. He and his partners speculated heavily in Western lands, believing that Europeans fleeing revolutions would buy, but this did not happen. A minor creditor had Morris arrested and he spent 3-1/2 years in "Prune Street," the debtor's prison. He was released in 1801 with the passage of the national bankruptcy law, but died in poverty and obscurity.

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