Manuscript DS, signed “Ed. Rutledge,” six pages, 13.25 x 16.25, circa 1794. Document issued to "the Judges of the Court of Equity of South Carolina," relating to the sale of the estate of the deceased Ann Grame, "consisting among other things of a Plantation containing five hundred and fifty acres or thereabouts of Swamp land known by the name of Newton…and also a considerable number of Negroes." Signed in the lower right of the final page by Edward Rutledge. In very good to fine condition, with splitting to the folds, and small areas of paper loss.
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