Lot 2006
  • 2006

JOHN WESLEY CROCKETT. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 15 SEPTEMBER 1835

Estimate
500 - 700 USD
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Description

  • Document signed ("John W. Crockett"), being a legal writ for recovery of damages
One page (13 x 8 1/8 in.; 328 x 207 mm), partially printed and accomplished in a clerical hand, with dockets and endorsements on verso; several fold separations with tiny losses at intersecting folds, lightly browned. Framed with double-sided Plexiglas, hinged to a larger frame with a portrait of J. W. Crockett.

Condition

One page (13 x 8 1/8 in.; 328 x 207 mm), partially printed and accomplished in a clerical hand, with dockets and endorsements on verso; several fold separations with tiny losses at intersecting folds, lightly browned. Framed with double-sided Plexiglas, hinged to a larger frame with a portrait of J. W. Crockett.
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Catalogue Note

The writ orders the Sheriff of Gibson County, Tennessee, to execute a judgment of $521.25 against the "goods and chattles, lands and tenements of John Page & James Turner." John Wesley Crockett was Davy Crockett's oldest son, a lawyer and politician who later held the same congressional seat his father did.