Partially printed document signed: Exchg. 18 Dollars at five Livres Tournois p. Dollar. Numb. 533. United States of America, 5 Day of January 1782
n.p. [1781?]. Oblong colonial sight draft approx. 3¾" x 8¼ (95 x 205 mm); printed in green and black, with manuscript additions; green floral border at left edge docketed by a scallop cutting; previous folds; near fine. Sight Note directing U.S. Commissioners in Paris to pay "At Thirty Days Sight of this Second Bill, First, Third and Fourth not paid, pay to William Northey, or Order, Eighteen Dollars, in Ninety Livres Tournois, for Interest due on Money borrowed by the United States." Countersigned by the Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in Massachusetts, Nath[aniel] Appleton. Hillegas (1729-1804) was the first treasurer of the United States. Item #54430
Price: $1,500.00
