Lot 1086
Blount, William (1749-1800), First and only Governor of the Southwest Territory [later Tennessee] (1790-1795), U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1796-1797). Manuscript Document Signed "Wm. Blount" as Governor of the Southwest Territory, one page, 7¾ x 12¾ Knoxville, July 15, 1795. Pay warrant headed "William Blount Governor in and over the Territory of the United States south of the river Ohio" to pay one William Rickard, "Pay Master pro tem to the Troops in the Territory aforesaid…for the pay of a Detachment of Mounted Infantry of Mero District, Colonel James Ford's Regiment under the command of Cornet James Taylor, from the tenth of September through the twenty seventh of September 1794…", intact paper seal, receipted by Rickard on verso; some splitting of horizontal folds, otherwise Very Fine with clear bold text.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
Blount was expelled from the Senate for devising a plan to incite the Creek and Cherokee to aid the British in attacking Spanish-controlled West Florida. He was the first person ever to be expelled from Congress and the only Senator ever expelled for offenses unrelated to Civil War.
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