BIB_ID
136797
Accession number
MA 557.12
Creator
Crawford, William, 1732-1782.
Display Date
1771 June.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 37.4 cm
Notes
This item is part of a collection of autographs of the signers of the Articles of Confederation; see main record for MA 557 for more information.
With an autograph note signed by George Washington on p. [2]: "By an order of Council bearing date the 6th day of November 1772, this Survey of Four thousand Two hundred and thirty two acres of Land, is to be Patented in the name of Doctor James Craik as will appear by a Reference to the said order."
With an autograph note signed by George Washington on p. [2]: "By an order of Council bearing date the 6th day of November 1772, this Survey of Four thousand Two hundred and thirty two acres of Land, is to be Patented in the name of Doctor James Craik as will appear by a Reference to the said order."
Summary
A report of a survey of 4232 acres of land, part of a tract of 200,000 acres granted by a proclamation at Williamsburgh, 19 February 1754, "for the use of the officers and soldiers therein mentioned."
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