Lot 2030
1786 Stampless Folded Letter, Boston to Portsmouth, Manuscript "p Stage", Carried by Stage
Addressed to John Langdon, Signer of the U.S. Constitution
פתיחה: $260
הערכה: $500 - $750
Stampless folded letter datelined Boston, September 19, 1786, addressed to "The Honble John Langdon Esqr., Portsmouth," with manuscript "P. Stage" endorsement at lower left indicating carriage by stage.
The letter is written and signed by John Cushing of Boston, requesting a personal loan of three hundred pounds either in cash or in rum, to be drawn against Langdon's funds held by Thomas Russell of Boston. Cushing offers as security either a mortgage to be obtained from Mr. Whipple or deeds to two tracts of New Hampshire land in his possession, a 300-acre island in Winnipesaukee Pond and 1,055 acres between Grafton and Alexandria, and asks Langdon to reply by return of the stage.
The recipient was John Langdon (1741 to 1819) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, who in 1786 was serving as President of New Hampshire under the state constitution. Langdon was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a signer of the United States Constitution, the first President pro tempore of the United States Senate, and later Governor of New Hampshire. The letter was written ten months before Langdon's appointment to the Constitutional Convention.
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