MORRIS, ROBERT, Signer (Pennsylvania). Engraved document signed ("Robt Morris") Philadelphia, 20 February 1795. One page, oblong folio, 249 x 316 mm. (9 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.), tipped to a mount, matted with a steel-engraved portrait, accomplished in manuscript. A finely engraved calligraphic stock certificate, certifying that Dr. Enoch Edwards is the owner of three shares in the Morris's North American Land Company, the speculative venture whose eventual collapse brought Morris to bankruptcy and debtor's prison.

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MORRIS, ROBERT, Signer (Pennsylvania). Engraved document signed ("Robt Morris") Philadelphia, 20 February 1795. One page, oblong folio, 249 x 316 mm. (9 7/8 x 12 1/2 in.), tipped to a mount, matted with a steel-engraved portrait, accomplished in manuscript. A finely engraved calligraphic stock certificate, certifying that Dr. Enoch Edwards is the owner of three shares in the Morris's North American Land Company, the speculative venture whose eventual collapse brought Morris to bankruptcy and debtor's prison.