GEORGE WASHINGTON. ADDRESS LEAF WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED AS FIRST PRESIDENT, TO BUSHROD WASHINGTON

One page (sight: 4 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 110 x 140 mm), Richmond, 30 January 1790, with address panel reading "30. Jany 90 | Geo. Washington | to | His Nephew & Heir | Judge Washington | The present owner of Mt. Vernon.", remnants of wax seal; minor soiling. Matted, glazed, and framed together with an engraving of Washington after and etching by H.B. Hall. Not examined out of frame.

Bushrod Washington was an politician and attorney, who, after being nominated by John Adams, served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1798 to 1829. Whilst on the Supreme Court, Bushrod Washington was a staunch ally of Chief Justice John Marshall, and also a co-founder and the president of the American Colonization Society (ACS). Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon along with his uncle's papers, and formally took possession of the property in 1802, following the death of Martha Washington.