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Partly-printed DS, signed “Rob't Morris,” one page, 12.5 x 9.5, October 15, 1795. Stock certificate issued to "James Rees" for three shares in the entire property of the North American Land Company. Signed boldly at the conclusion by Robert Morris as president, and countersigned by the company's secretary, James Marshall, the brother of Chief Justice and Secretary of State John Marshall. In fine condition. Morris was eventually bankrupted by land speculations and served a few years in the Prune Street prison until released by the passage of the national bankruptcy law in 1802.
James Rees (1763-1851) served as the confidential clerk of Robert Morris and was often a witness of the interviews held between the great financier and General George Washington. When Charles Williamson arrived in America as an agent of the Pulteney Associates, his first business was with Robert Morris, from whom the purchase of the land was made, and James Rees, who became one of his earliest acquaintances in this country. In 1797, Rees served as a clerk during a treaty with the Indians at Big Tree, a pact commonly known as the Morris Treaty, with Thomas Morris, the son of Robert Morris, being the active negotiator.
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