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American jurist (1751–1799) who was one of the first justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George Washington and served from 1790 until his death in 1799. Prior to the Revolution, his treatise 'Principles of an American Whig' predated and echoed themes and ideas of the Declaration of Independence. Rare string-bound AES, signed “Jas. Iredell,” penned at the conclusion of the legal document, five pages, 7.5 x 12.25, May 9, 1785. Iredell’s handwritten endorsement reads: “The Words, to wit, 'and the said surviving copartners the last’ being first interlined, the above was sealed and delivered in the presence of, Jas. Iredell.” The document, issued in Perquimans County, North Carolina, concerns “…the Copartnership in Trade and Commerce between John Alston, James Young, James Morton and Alexander Grindlay, Merchants in Glasgow, and Andrew Miller, William Littlejohn, and George Alston, Merchants in North Carolina.” In fine condition, with the document’s pair of adjoining pages disbound.
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