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Sat, Sep 15, 2018 09:00AM EDT
Lot 1046

Sundry Papers, 1809

Estimate: $300 - $600

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in Relation to Claims, Commonly Called The Yazoo Claims, City of Washington: A. and G. Way, 1809, the Yazoo Claims was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated in the mid-1790s by Georgia governor George Mathews and the Georgia General Assembly, Georgia politicians sold large tracts of Yazoo lands, to political insiders at very low prices in 1794, what resulted was probably the most stupendous land fraud in American history (Jenkins, 1976), Howes Y4, rebound in three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with five raised bands, morocco spine label; with receipt from William Reese Company

, Provenance: The Collection of Thomas A. Gray

Condition

scattered foxing otherwise very good, binding as new

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