Manuscript DS, one page, 7.5 x 2.75, April 8, 1808. Promissory note issued by Joseph Donath & Co., which reads: "Sixty days after date we promise to pay without defalcation to the order of Stephen Girard Eighteen hundred Dollars." Signed in the lower left by Girard and countersigned by Donath. The document is affixed to a same-size sheet. In very good to fine condition, with light toning, two areas of old tape, and complete backing for reinforcement.
Donath was a Philadelphia merchant who started his own trading company, Donath & Co., which specialized in Bohemian clothes and glassware. He provided both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson with Hungarian wines, which was a particular favorite of the latter. Jefferson also relied on Donath to procure the best Bohemian window-glass for the large cupola of his home at Monticello—it was the only variety that didn’t crack.
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