Papers. 18 April 1795-1807.

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Papers. 18 April 1795-1807.

Stock certificate in the name of D. Enoch Edwards verifying the ownership of five shares of the North American Land Company. Signed by Robert Morris and James Marshall. Also includes unsigned memoir that seems to have been written by the wife of Robert Morris.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7646029

The Filson Historical Society

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Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

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Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution...

Edwards, D. Enoch.

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North American Land Company

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Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. From the description of Papers of the North American Land Company [manuscript], 1794-1805. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813190 Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. Morris and Nicholson were eventually imprisoned as...

Marshall, James.

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