Sale 2530 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, February 20, 2020

68 c   ADAMS, JOHN. Two Autograph Documents Signed, in the third person within the text, receipts acknowledging payment for goods and rent. The first, £4.16 “for a Cane Sold and delivered.” The second, £2.3.8 “for 10 Bushells of oats three of Barley and for said Adams’s Rates as a Proprietary of Penny Ferry Meadows.” Each additionally signed by payer, the second docketed on verso in holograph. Each approximately 2¾x6½ inches; loss of “s” to signature of second, faint scattered staining, irregular edges, folds. Braintree [Quincy], 14 November 1772; Boston, 7 January 1777 [1,500/2,500] PRESIDENTS LOTS 68 - 104