[GEORGIA] -- [YAZOO LAND COMPANIES]. Sundry Papers, in Relation to Claims, Commonly Called the Yazoo Claims. December 18, 1809. Washington, [D.C.], 1809. FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies printed.
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[GEORGIA] -- [YAZOO LAND COMPANIES]. Sundry Papers, in Relation to Claims, Commonly Called the Yazoo Claims. December 18, 1809. Printed by the Order of the House of Representatives. City of Washington, [D.C.]: A. and G. Way, 1809.
8vo (212 x 122 mm). (Some browning or spotting.) Modern quarter calf, red morocco lettering-piece gilt.
FIRST EDITION, one of 300 copies printed, of this "grouping of the most significant documents relating to the Yazoo claims" (Eberstadt 167:224), which includes the Constitution of Georgia of 1789. Georgia sold its western lands to four land companies in 1795, The Georgia legislature repudiated the sale of the land along the Yazoo River to the Yazoo land companies, ultimately leading to the John Marshall decision in Fletcher vs. Peck in 1810. RARE: According to online records, only two copies of this work have sold at auction in the last 45 years. De Renne I, p. 339-340; Howes Y-4; Shaw and Shoemaker 19074.
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia
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