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THBc 1808 the Personal Estate of Stephen Decatur, Sr. Deceased, Appaisal Inventory
Lot 110
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"Inventory of the Personal Estate of Stephen Decatur, dec'd"
(STEPHEN DECATUR, SR.) (1752-1808). American Merchant Ship Captain before the Revolutionary War, American Naval Captain in the Revolutionary War, and later commissioned as a U.S. Navy Captain in the Quasi-War with France, Commanded the USS Delaware and sailed in the first American Navy fleet to cross the Atlantic, along with his son Stephen Decatur Jr.
November 11, 1808, Manuscript Document, 8 Pages, Listing titled, "Copy of an Inventory of Goods & Chattels, the Personal Estate of Stephen Decatur, dec'd," with a fully listed and appraised total value of $9,100.39, Choice Extremely Fine. This undated, Handwritten Manuscript Document is Headed at the top of its front page: "Copy of an Inventory of Goods & Chattels, the Personal Estate of Stephen Decatur, dec'd." This being an official period Contemporary Copy of the Inventory of the personal estate of Stephen Decatur. It is a listed appraisal measuring 7" wide x 12.5" tall, with 8 pages (2 blank). The Docket on its blank final page verso reads, in full: "N 1 - Copy of Appraisment of the Personal Estate of S Decatur deceased." Written on high quality laid period paper, lightly folded, very well written to be easily readable and extremely clean in its appearance and presentation. There are a few trivial small splits at folds, overall extremely well written in crisp brown on fresh clean period laid paper. Excellent for display. A wonderful collectible historic United States Navy item that is exceedingly rare.
Stephen Decatur, Sr. (1752 - 1808), American merchant captain before the Revolution, and American Naval Captain in the Revolutionary War and later in the Quasi-War. He was the father of Stephen Decatur, Jr., the famous Naval officer.
During the American Revolution, Decatur commanded the Ships Royal Louis, the Comet, the Retaliation, the Rising Sun, and the Fair American, gaining distinction by the capture of English vessels.
At the close of the war he returned to mercantile life and was a friend and business associate of Colonel Francis Gurney (1738 - 1813), Philadelphia merchant, civic leader, and officer during the Revolutionary War.
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