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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), Signer (Pennsylvania). Partial document signed ("B. Franklin"), Philadelphia, 8 March 1787. 1 page, 4to (5¾ x 7 5/8in.), inlaid.
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FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790), Signer (Pennsylvania). Partial document signed ("B. Franklin"), Philadelphia, 8 March 1787. 1 page, 4to (5¾ x 7 5/8in.), inlaid.
A FINE FRANKLIN SIGNATURE, executed in the same year as the Constitutional convention in Philadelphia. Franklin witnesses the signature of Rebecca Inkson, in an affidavit by Inkson declaring one of her creditors, Thomas Denton, a bankrupt. Denton was a stockbroker, and Inkson alleges in her petition (only a portion of which survives here) that Denton's declaration of bankruptcy was made in order "to defraud and hinder your Petitioner & others of their just Debts..."
A FINE FRANKLIN SIGNATURE, executed in the same year as the Constitutional convention in Philadelphia. Franklin witnesses the signature of Rebecca Inkson, in an affidavit by Inkson declaring one of her creditors, Thomas Denton, a bankrupt. Denton was a stockbroker, and Inkson alleges in her petition (only a portion of which survives here) that Denton's declaration of bankruptcy was made in order "to defraud and hinder your Petitioner & others of their just Debts..."