Approx. 3.75 x 12.5 in., Vincennes, IN, 8 Dec. 1794. Vendor's license for Tusaint Dubois to vend as a retailer for one year. Signed Vigo as "Commissioner for Granting Licences to Marchants Traders Retailers and Innholders in the County of Knox." Francis Vigo was born Giuseppe Maria Francesco Vigo in Italy in 1747. He came to the New World with the Spanish army to the vicinity of New Orleans. By 1772 he had established a fur trading company in St. Louis, moving his business to Vincennes in 1783. Although technically a non-combatant, he was providing intelligence to George Rogers Clark on British and Indian activities in the Northwest Territory, including that the British had recaptured Vincennes. He as also a major (if not the major) financier of the Revolution in the Northwest. He was never reimbursed during his lifetime, and after his death, the government only had to pay for expenses designated in Vigo's will (saving them literally tens of thousands of dollars - the accumulated interest on the loan). After the war, he requested a donation from Congress to establish Jefferson Academy, now Vincennes University and was named one of the original trustees. Vigo died in 1836, but the aforesaid war loan was not "repaid" until 1875. Condition: Water stain on right, folds with usual toning. A few margin tears, not affecting text.
Approx. 3.75 x 12.5 in., Vincennes, IN, 8 Dec. 1794. Vendor's license for Tusaint Dubois to vend as a retailer for one year. Signed Vigo as "Commissioner for Granting Licences to Marchants Traders Retailers and Innholders in the County of Knox." Francis Vigo was born Giuseppe Maria Francesco Vigo in Italy in 1747. He came to the New World with the Spanish army to the vicinity of New Orleans. By 1772 he had established a fur trading company in St. Louis, moving his business to Vincennes in 1783. Although technically a non-combatant, he was providing intelligence to George Rogers Clark on British and Indian activities in the Northwest Territory, including that the British had recaptured Vincennes. He as also a major (if not the major) financier of the Revolution in the Northwest. He was never reimbursed during his lifetime, and after his death, the government only had to pay for expenses designated in Vigo's will (saving them literally tens of thousands of dollars - the accumulated interest on the loan). After the war, he requested a donation from Congress to establish Jefferson Academy, now Vincennes University and was named one of the original trustees. Vigo died in 1836, but the aforesaid war loan was not "repaid" until 1875. Condition: Water stain on right, folds with usual toning. A few margin tears, not affecting text.
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