Lot 1093
Sterett, Samuel (1758-1833), Maryland Delegate to the 2nd U.S. Congress (1791-1793) during which time he also served as secretary to the Maryland Society for the Abolition of Slavery (1791) and as personal secretary to President of the Congress, Elias Houdini (1792-1793). Document Signed, one page, 7½ x 12½ Baltimore, December 26, 1806. Handsome, partly-printed sworn statement of one F. Kramer that 1,616 bags of coffee, as per two bills of lading, were aboard "the Schooner General Eaton, Caleb P Robinson Master then lying in the harbour of Port au Prince bound for Baltimore, and were actually on board the said Schooner at the time she was captured and carried into Tortola", signed by Sterett as Notary Public. The illustrated document features an eagle design and Sterett's intact paper notary seal featuring a three-masted ship.
Estimate 400 - 600
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