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Auction 28 · Lot 308

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Publication

February 4th, 1794

Description

Deed from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania stating that Moses Levy Esq. “paid into the office of the Receiver-General the whole purchase money for one thousand acres of land within the last purchase made of the Indians, East of the Allegheny River...at the rate of five pounds for every hundred acres.”

summary

Moses Levy (1756-1826) was City and county Judge of Philadelphia. See J.R. Rosenbloom, A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews (1960) p. 94
Rectangualar sm. folio
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