ROBERT FULTON - MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED 11/03/1809 - HFSID 278467
Price: $4,750.00
ROBERT FULTON
Fulton signed this document - buying 32 lots of land in the town of Jersey, New Jersey
for $1,000 - in 1809. He signed it the same year that he filed his first patent for
improvements in navigation by steam and one year after marrying his wife Harriet
Livingston. Pieces by Fulton are rare in any form, and legal documents, like this, are
doubly so. Accompanied by an unsigned engraving of Fulton based on an Alonzo Chappel
portrait.
Manuscript document signed "Robert Fulton". 3 pages plus docket, 7½x12¼, 2 sheets front
and verso, with embossed Jersey Company seal and 1-inch square paper seal on page 3 by
signatures. Nov. 3, 1809. This document was signed between Fulton and the president of the
Jersey Company. Fulton agreed to buy a block of land containing 32 lots in the town of Jersey
in Bergen County, New Jersey for $1,000. Fulton signed this document one year after
marrying Harriet Livingston, his partner's niece, and the same year that he filed his first
patent for improvements in navigation by steam. Fulton is scarce in any form and this is
a fine example suitable for framing and display. Lightly toned, stained, soiled and creased.
Random ink stains. Edges are torn. Pinholes in both sheets. Corners are rounded Folded thrice
and unfolded. Worn, torn, toned and with pinholes along folds. Otherwise in fine condition.
Accompanied by: unsigned full-length engraving of Fulton sitting at a draftsman's table. B/w,
7¼x10½ overall, 5x7½ image, one surface. With facsimile signature. Published by Johnson,
Fry & Co. of New York. Based on an Alonzo Chappel portrait. Lightly toned, stained and
rippled. Left corners are rounded. Otherwise in fine condition. In 1801, Fulton (1765-1815,
born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) was commissioned by Robert R. Livingston, U.S.
Minister to France, to build a steamboat. After successful experiments on the Seine in France,
Fulton returned to the United States and succeeded in building the first commercially
successful steamboat. This boat, with the final name Clermont, steamed from New York
to Albany and back between August 17 and 22, 1807. Thereafter, Fulton designed 17
steamboats, a torpedo boat and a ferry.
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