[WEST FLORIDA] MORRISON, HENRY. Manuscript document signed "To His Excellency Peter Chester."
Pensacola, Florida: 8 February 1776. Single page on a folded sheet, docketed verso "Warrnt. issued same day" 12 x 7 1/2 inches (30.5 x 19 cm); Morrison, "a reduced Non Commissioned Officer," asks for a new warrant of survey for 150 acres on the River Amit, between lands granted to Patrick Conway and Edward Jones, having found that of his existing grant of 200 acres" were vacant. Some toning, two small holes from ink oxidation, some separation on folds.

Presumably Morrison moved to West Florida, of which Peter Chester was the Governor, because of the Revolutionary War. Parke-Bernet, American Historical Manuscripts From the Stock of Edward Eberstadt & Sons, April 9, 1968, lot 75 ($30).

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