Sale of Bonds Receipt
Document 1793Certification that Knox sold 2 shares of stock in the Bank of the United States.
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KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, That I Henry Knox
for Value received have bargained, sold, assigned and transferred, and by these Presents do bargain, sell, assign and transfer unto John Kean or George Simpson both of Philadelphia jointly [undecipherable] the whole or any part of *Two* Shares, the Certificates of which are hereunto annexed unto me belonging in the Capital or Joint Stock of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, and further do make, constitute and appoint the said John Kean and George Simpson each of them my true and lawful Attorney irrevocable for me and in my name and behalf, but to the use of the said John Kean and George Simpson to sell, assign and transfer the said Stock unto any other Person or Persons, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assignment, and transfer, and furthermore one or more Persons under them to Substitute with like full Power, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney or their Substitute or Substitutes shall do therein by Virtue hereof. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, the [undecipherable: twenty] sixth Day of October in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three.
[Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of us]
[signature]
Wm Tyson
H Knox.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the twenty fourth Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Three. before me JOHN KEESE, Notary Public, duly admitted and sworn, dwelling in the City of New-York, came
Henry Knox
above named and acknowledged the above Letter of Attorney to be his Act and Deed. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year last aforesaid.
[signature]
Noty. Pubr.
Type
Printed Document Signed
Description
Certification that Knox sold 2 shares of stock in the Bank of the United States.
Date
10/24/1793
Author
Document number
1793102400001
Page start
1
Notable persons
Henry Knox
John Kean
George Simpson
attorney
John Keese
Notable items
stocks
bonds

