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JEFFERSON, Thomas. Partly printed document signed (“Th:Jefferson”) as Secretary of State, New York, 4 June 1790. 1 p., folio. (Evenly browned). Countersigned in type by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House, John Adams Vice-president and President of the Senate, and approved by Jefferson, constituting “An Act for fully adjusting and justifying the Claims of Frederick William De Steuben.
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Partly printed document signed (“Th:Jefferson”) as Secretary of State, New York, 4 June 1790. 1 p., folio. (Evenly browned). Countersigned in type by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House, John Adams Vice-president and President of the Senate, and approved by Jefferson, constituting “An Act for fully adjusting and justifying the Claims of Frederick William De Steuben.” RESCUING BARON VON STEUBEN . A most unusual enactment, intended “to make full and adequate compensation to Frederick Wilhelm Augustus De Steuben (1730-1794), for “the sacrifices and eminent services made and rendered to the United States during the late war...” He is to receive an annuity of two thousand five hundred dollars and “said annuity shall be considered in full discharge of all claims...against the United States.” Von Steuben richly deserved the honor bestowed upon him. He arrived in Boston in December 1777 and joined Washington’s staff at Valley Forge in February, where he employed his rigorous European military training to the Continental Army: “perhaps the most remarkable achievement in rapid military training” (D.A.B.). He served at Monmouth, was promoted to Major General, and fought at under Greene and Lafayette in the Virginia campaigns. He compiled and published his methods in a widely used military manual. After the war he became an American citizen but was soon in serious debt. The present annuity proved inadequate and Alexander Hamilton and other friends arranged a “friendly mortgage” on his 16,000 acre farm in upstate New York, where he died in 1794.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 121
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Datum:
07.12.2015
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Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

JEFFERSON, Thomas. Partly printed document signed (“Th:Jefferson”) as Secretary of State, New York, 4 June 1790. 1 p., folio. (Evenly browned). Countersigned in type by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House, John Adams Vice-president and President of the Senate, and approved by Jefferson, constituting “An Act for fully adjusting and justifying the Claims of Frederick William De Steuben.
JEFFERSON, Thomas. Partly printed document signed (“Th:Jefferson”) as Secretary of State, New York, 4 June 1790. 1 p., folio. (Evenly browned). Countersigned in type by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House, John Adams Vice-president and President of the Senate, and approved by Jefferson, constituting “An Act for fully adjusting and justifying the Claims of Frederick William De Steuben.” RESCUING BARON VON STEUBEN . A most unusual enactment, intended “to make full and adequate compensation to Frederick Wilhelm Augustus De Steuben (1730-1794), for “the sacrifices and eminent services made and rendered to the United States during the late war...” He is to receive an annuity of two thousand five hundred dollars and “said annuity shall be considered in full discharge of all claims...against the United States.” Von Steuben richly deserved the honor bestowed upon him. He arrived in Boston in December 1777 and joined Washington’s staff at Valley Forge in February, where he employed his rigorous European military training to the Continental Army: “perhaps the most remarkable achievement in rapid military training” (D.A.B.). He served at Monmouth, was promoted to Major General, and fought at under Greene and Lafayette in the Virginia campaigns. He compiled and published his methods in a widely used military manual. After the war he became an American citizen but was soon in serious debt. The present annuity proved inadequate and Alexander Hamilton and other friends arranged a “friendly mortgage” on his 16,000 acre farm in upstate New York, where he died in 1794.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 121
Auktion:
Datum:
07.12.2015
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York
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