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WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Document, ANNOTATED BY WASHINGTON, Philadelphia, 7 December 1798. One page, folio, neat separation along central horizontal fold, verso with NINE-LINE AUTOGRAPH DOCKET (INCOPORATING SIGNATURE "WASHINGTON"). "Copy of a Deed of Gift of 100 Shares in the James River Co. to Liberty Hall Accad. now Washington [Academy] so named by the Trustees 7th Decr. 1798," a very interesting draft of Washington's deed of gift of 100 shares of the James River Company to Washington Academy, "formerly known as Liberty Academy" and later Washington and Lee University, the text in a clear hand, with some 17 words in Washington's hand added between lines and portions of the text deleted with oblique strokes of the pen.
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WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Document, ANNOTATED BY WASHINGTON, Philadelphia, 7 December 1798. One page, folio, neat separation along central horizontal fold, verso with NINE-LINE AUTOGRAPH DOCKET (INCOPORATING SIGNATURE "WASHINGTON"). "Copy of a Deed of Gift of 100 Shares in the James River Co. to Liberty Hall Accad. now Washington [Academy] so named by the Trustees 7th Decr. 1798," a very interesting draft of Washington's deed of gift of 100 shares of the James River Company to Washington Academy, "formerly known as Liberty Academy" and later Washington and Lee University, the text in a clear hand, with some 17 words in Washington's hand added between lines and portions of the text deleted with oblique strokes of the pen.