MORRIS, ROBERT, Signer (Pennsylvania). Document signed ("Robt.Morris"), verso endorsed by Joseph Hopkinson (author of the song "Hail Columbia") and John Nicholson. Philadelphia, 10 February 1795. 1 page, oblong, 84 x 198 mm. (3 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.). Fine. A PROMISSORY NOTE FROM "THE FINANCIER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION." A promissory note by which Morris, already in the financial difficulties which ultimately brought him to bankruptcy and debtor's prison, agrees to pay John Nicholson "or order" the sum of $3,500. in thirty months. On the verso is the note "Exhibited to us under the commission against Robert Morris...6 August 1801." Boldly signed.