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Auction archive: Lot number 172

WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President . Autograph manuscript signed ("Go:Washington," with his repeated name in four places in the text and once in the drawing), A SURVEY AND PLAT DRAWING FOR A PART OF THE MOUNT VERNON ESTATE, a draft of the version Washingt...

Auction 09.12.1994
9 Dec 1994
Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$96,000
Auction archive: Lot number 172

WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President . Autograph manuscript signed ("Go:Washington," with his repeated name in four places in the text and once in the drawing), A SURVEY AND PLAT DRAWING FOR A PART OF THE MOUNT VERNON ESTATE, a draft of the version Washingt...

Auction 09.12.1994
9 Dec 1994
Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$96,000
Beschreibung:

WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President . Autograph manuscript signed ("Go:Washington," with his repeated name in four places in the text and once in the drawing), A SURVEY AND PLAT DRAWING FOR A PART OF THE MOUNT VERNON ESTATE, a draft of the version Washington officially submitted to the Virginia Proprietors, with a number of deletions in the text and interlinear additions by Washington, n.p., 25 February 1771. 1 page, 4to, 227 x 182 mm. (8 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.), professionally inlaid to a larger sheet and enclosed in a gilt-ruled mat, the mat in a protective brown calf folding case lined with marbled paper, upper cover gilt-lettered: "Pen and Ink Survey of Property at Mount Vernon, Drawn and Written by George Washington...," bound at the Dumbarton Oaks Bindery, with their manuscript ticket inside front cover, manuscript presentation label on inside front cover (see provenance) . THE GROWTH OF MOUNT VERNON: WASHINGTON'S DRAFT SURVEY OF AN ADDITION TO HIS ESTATE, THE GIFT TO LORD HALIFAX, BRITISH AMBASSADOR, IN 1946 A very unusual draft survey by Washington of a portion of the Mount Vernon estate. When the final survey was filed with the authorities, it validated Washington's claim to this parcel, a triangular twenty-acre tract of vacant land to the northwest of the original Mount Vernon tract on which his home was situated. "The above is a Plat of the waste & ungranted Land entered by George Washington in the Proprietors Office in the year and found to contain by actual survey Twenty and a half Acres and bounded as followeth, viz: Beginning at a large Hickory standing about 4 po[les] from Dogues Run [a creek running roughly north-south to the East of the main Mount Vernon tracts], Corner to a Tract of Land which the said Washington bought of George Ashford [in 1762] and extending with a line thereof (corrected)...[where it] intersects a South thirty five degrees East Course of Harrison's Patent (now the Property of Messrs. John West and Wm. Triplett) thence with the said Line till it comes to the C[orne]r if hereafter to be found, and if not, then to Dogue Run at a Spanish Oak & small Gum [tree], standing at ye mouth of a drain lately mark'd by ye. said Washington West & Tripplett), thence with another Line of the said Harrison's Patent (being the last Course therof) & never mark'd, but from the Spanish Oak & Gum last mentioned is f[oun]d to be 16 W. 135 [poles] to a large Water Oak & two or three small Sweet Gums standing by a Dead lying down Maple Corner of Ball's Patent (now held by the said George Washington) & beginning Free of Harrison's Patent, near Piney Branch; thence S.58 E[as]t Twelve & an half poles to a Willow on Doag Run, at the Mouth of this Piney Branch (& lower side thereof) finally up Doag Run according to the several Meanders to the beginning, containing 20 1/2 Acres as above & all the waste & ungranted Land that it or may be lying between the Lines of the Land now held by the Subscriber, & those of Harrison's Patent." The original tract of land granted in 1674/75 to Colonel Nicholas Spencer and Lt. Col. John Washington consisted of some 5000 acres; by 1743, when Lawrence Washington gave the portion he inherited the name "Mount Vernon," it appears to have comprised about 2650 acres. Title passed to George Washington in 1752. "It was only natural for the new master of Mount Vernon to cherish the hope that some days the boundaries of his estate would be rounded out to conform to the original lines of the 5000-acre Spencer-Washington grant....No opportunity should be overlooked which would serve to enlarge Mount Vernon in other directions" (D.S. Freeman, George Washington , vol.6, Appendix VI-1, "Growth of the Mount Vernon Tract, p.388). Between 1757 and 1786, Washington added a total of 5601 acres to his Mount Vernon estate mainly by the purchase of small adjoining tracts as they became available from his neighbors. For a detailed map of these successive purchases, see Washington, Diaries , ed. D. Jackson, D. Twohig, vo

Auction archive: Lot number 172
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

WASHINGTON, GEORGE, President . Autograph manuscript signed ("Go:Washington," with his repeated name in four places in the text and once in the drawing), A SURVEY AND PLAT DRAWING FOR A PART OF THE MOUNT VERNON ESTATE, a draft of the version Washington officially submitted to the Virginia Proprietors, with a number of deletions in the text and interlinear additions by Washington, n.p., 25 February 1771. 1 page, 4to, 227 x 182 mm. (8 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.), professionally inlaid to a larger sheet and enclosed in a gilt-ruled mat, the mat in a protective brown calf folding case lined with marbled paper, upper cover gilt-lettered: "Pen and Ink Survey of Property at Mount Vernon, Drawn and Written by George Washington...," bound at the Dumbarton Oaks Bindery, with their manuscript ticket inside front cover, manuscript presentation label on inside front cover (see provenance) . THE GROWTH OF MOUNT VERNON: WASHINGTON'S DRAFT SURVEY OF AN ADDITION TO HIS ESTATE, THE GIFT TO LORD HALIFAX, BRITISH AMBASSADOR, IN 1946 A very unusual draft survey by Washington of a portion of the Mount Vernon estate. When the final survey was filed with the authorities, it validated Washington's claim to this parcel, a triangular twenty-acre tract of vacant land to the northwest of the original Mount Vernon tract on which his home was situated. "The above is a Plat of the waste & ungranted Land entered by George Washington in the Proprietors Office in the year and found to contain by actual survey Twenty and a half Acres and bounded as followeth, viz: Beginning at a large Hickory standing about 4 po[les] from Dogues Run [a creek running roughly north-south to the East of the main Mount Vernon tracts], Corner to a Tract of Land which the said Washington bought of George Ashford [in 1762] and extending with a line thereof (corrected)...[where it] intersects a South thirty five degrees East Course of Harrison's Patent (now the Property of Messrs. John West and Wm. Triplett) thence with the said Line till it comes to the C[orne]r if hereafter to be found, and if not, then to Dogue Run at a Spanish Oak & small Gum [tree], standing at ye mouth of a drain lately mark'd by ye. said Washington West & Tripplett), thence with another Line of the said Harrison's Patent (being the last Course therof) & never mark'd, but from the Spanish Oak & Gum last mentioned is f[oun]d to be 16 W. 135 [poles] to a large Water Oak & two or three small Sweet Gums standing by a Dead lying down Maple Corner of Ball's Patent (now held by the said George Washington) & beginning Free of Harrison's Patent, near Piney Branch; thence S.58 E[as]t Twelve & an half poles to a Willow on Doag Run, at the Mouth of this Piney Branch (& lower side thereof) finally up Doag Run according to the several Meanders to the beginning, containing 20 1/2 Acres as above & all the waste & ungranted Land that it or may be lying between the Lines of the Land now held by the Subscriber, & those of Harrison's Patent." The original tract of land granted in 1674/75 to Colonel Nicholas Spencer and Lt. Col. John Washington consisted of some 5000 acres; by 1743, when Lawrence Washington gave the portion he inherited the name "Mount Vernon," it appears to have comprised about 2650 acres. Title passed to George Washington in 1752. "It was only natural for the new master of Mount Vernon to cherish the hope that some days the boundaries of his estate would be rounded out to conform to the original lines of the 5000-acre Spencer-Washington grant....No opportunity should be overlooked which would serve to enlarge Mount Vernon in other directions" (D.S. Freeman, George Washington , vol.6, Appendix VI-1, "Growth of the Mount Vernon Tract, p.388). Between 1757 and 1786, Washington added a total of 5601 acres to his Mount Vernon estate mainly by the purchase of small adjoining tracts as they became available from his neighbors. For a detailed map of these successive purchases, see Washington, Diaries , ed. D. Jackson, D. Twohig, vo

Auction archive: Lot number 172
Auction:
Datum:
9 Dec 1994
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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