FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR: LAND SPECULATION.


TRENT, WILLIAM, and GEORGE CROGHAN. Document Signed ("William Trent," "Geo: Croghan"), partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, 1 p (now separated into 2), folio, [Philadelphia], September 7, 1750, being an obligatory note for the sum of £416.20, with the proviso that if £208.10 is paid back by December 1the obligation is voided, with red wax seals of Trent and Croghan to the right of their signatures, also signed by JOHN BIDDLE and JOHN BARNES, leaf separated at center fold and with original horizontal crease separated but reattached with cello tape, toning and thumbsoiling overall.William Trent and George Croghan were fur traders and speculators who were leaders of the Virginia Regiment along with young George Washington during the French and Indian War. Here they borrow money from prominent Philadelphia merchant Jeremiah Warder (1712-1783) at fairly exorbitant terms.