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Thu, Jul 30, 2020 09:00AM EDT
Lot 4

Edward Shippen IV signed certificate

Estimate: $300 - $400
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Edward Shippen IV signed naturalization certificate, dated 24th, September, 1765, inscribed "I Edward Shippen Jr. Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania DO hereby certify, That at a Supream sic Court held at Philadelphia . . . Before William Allen William Coleman and Alexander Stedman Esquires, Judges of the said Court . . . Ludwick Nosbickle in the County of Bucks being a Foreigner, and having inhabited and resided for the Space of Seven Years in His Majesty's Colonies in America, and not having been absent out of some of the said Colonies for a longer Time than Two Months at any one Time . . . having produced to the said Court, a Certificate, of his having taken the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper within Three Months before the said Court . . . did make and repeat the Declaration (appointed by an Act, made in the First Year of the Reign of King GEORGE the First) . . . and thereupon was admitted to be His Majesty's natural born Subject of the Kingdom of Great-Britain.

Condition

Creases, some toning and minor stains, small paper loss at bottom edge.