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Lengthy front-page advertisement by George Washington for the lease of 30,000 acres on the Ohio and Great Kanawha Rivers |
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 Signed in extra-large and bold type; indicative of the financial straits Washington faced on his return home from commanding the Continental Army.
[GEORGE WASHINGTON]. Nw. The Pennsylvania Packet. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole. April 27, 1784.
Inventory# 20650.40 $1,250
Additional Highlights:
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Precursor to the 1787 Northwest Ordinance: Printing of the Congressional Resolutions for forming 10 new states – Sylvania, Michigania, Cherronesus, Assenisipia, Metropotamia, Illinoia, Saratoga, Washington, Polypotamia, & Pelisipia – in the Western Territory. Drafted by a committee that includes “Mr. Jefferson,” one resolution is that “after…1800…there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…”
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An article on the Treaty of Peace, and news that the New York Senate presented Thomas Paine, “author of the celebrated pamphlet, stiled ‘Common Sense’, with the choice of two farms, one situated on Long-Island, and the other at New-Rochelle,” for “the services he has rendered the United States.” Horse stud ad for “that famous, high bred Horse, Bashaw.”
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Confluence in West Virginia
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