Manuscript DS, signed "H: Moore," one page, 22 x 17, April 4, 1767. Document headed "The General Account of His Majesty's Quit Rents for the Province of New York, Stated by Andrew Elliot Esq:r Receiver General Constituted Thereto by His Majesty's Letters Patent, Commencing the 29th Day of September 1765 And Ending the 29th Day of September 1766." The document offers detailed information as to the rents paid in proclamation money on New York lands to the Crown, amounting to a total of £1078. Signed at the conclusion of the accounting by Andrew Elliot and signed in the lower left by Governor Moore. In very good to fine condition, with splitting to folds and hinge. Moore served as the colonial governor of New York from 1765 to 1769, while Elliot was a loyalist and one of the members of the delegation that met with George Washington to plead for the life of the spy John Andre in 1783. This is a rare and historically informative account of the colonial era in the period just preceding the American Revolution.
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