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| Title |
Aaron Burr |
| Number |
52350 |
| Size |
6" X 7.25" |
| Date |
August 15, 1823 |
| Place |
[New York City] |
| Category |
Revolutionary War |
| Price |
$2,500.00 |
Aaron Burr signed document with Alexander Hamilton and Samuel F.B. Morse association.
Manuscript Document Signed “A. Burr,” half-page on fourth page of manuscript document, four pages, 6” x 7.25”, front and verso of two conjoined sheets. No place, August 15, 1823. Folds, tiny pin holes at two vertical folds. Fine condition.
In full, “I have examined this a/c approve of the same & allow it. Aug. 15th 1823. A. Burr.”
On the first page is a Manuscript Document, not filled out or signed, probably written for Aaron Burr who decided to sign a short statement on the fourth page instead. In full, “I have this day examined and Settled the within amount with S. Sidney Breese and do hereby release & discharge him from the ballance due from him on former settlement. (he having within accounted for the disposal of the same) – and from all demands whatever. Witness my hand and seal this [blank] day of [blank] 1823.”
A manuscript balance sheet appears on opposite pages two and three, headed “Aaron Burr Esqr. Surviving Execut[o]r and Trustee & of Saml Bayard dec[eased]d in acct. with S. Sidney Breese.” Entries on the left include “1813 26 June To my expenses going down to New York to account with him charged by agree[men]t. 50.40 ... Sept. 10 1814 To cash paid Breese family by your order 1101.60...” Entries on the right include “1813 16 June By the ballance of my former acct and settlement made with you of this date – as will appear by the acct & Settlement & a copy of which you have 2919.28...” Each side, including “Ball[anc]e due S.S. Breese 47.84” is $3107.80.
Aaron Burr, Samuel Breese, and William Malcom were the executors of the estate of Samuel Bayard (1706-1784). In 1786, Bayard's widow Catharine charged that the three executors of her deceased husband Samuel’s estate (Burr, her nephew Samuel Breese, and her niece’s husband William Malcom) were defrauding her by refusing to convey to her a house which her husband had purchased from her mother’s estate. She won the case. Her lawyer was Alexander Hamilton whom Burr killed in a duel 18 years later.
Lawyer Samuel Sidney Breese (1768-1848), a New York State legislator and a delegate to the 1821 New York State Constitutional Convention, was the uncle of inventor Samuel Finlay Breese Morse.
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