Winter 2025 Sale

Letter to Lancaster datelined Philadelphia 17th Jany 69. Rated "2" dwt (6 pence) for 60 to 100 miles. Rerated "0/10" (0 shilling/ 10 pence) after applying 1.67 inflation factor. Lancaster had to rerate the letter because it was paid by the addressee and Lancaster had to credit Pennsylvania.
The addressee of this letter, Jasper Yeates, was a distinguished lawyer and judge from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who served as an Associate Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1791 to 1817. Though he held loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary War, he later became a key figure in shaping Pennsylvania’s judicial system and contributed to the interpretation of early American law.

Estimate $800.00 - $1,000.00