Assignment of Mortgage by John E. Peck of Newburgh, NY, to Cornelia S. Fenton, Trustee of Kitty S. Wood, of Newburgh

1869. [2] pages; 33 cm. Printed form sold by Pease & Prentice, Albany, NY. Filled in by hand in ink. On 26 April 1869 John E. Peck of Newburgh, NY, for $300 sold a mortgage to Cornelia S. Fenton, trustee of Kitty S. Wood, of Newburgh. With a 50 cent Internal Revenue stamp. Signed by John E. Peck, and the Orange County notary public S. E. Dimmick. An extremely unusual 19th-century document in which two of the parties are women. The seller, John E. Peck (1844-1916), founded the Peck Brothers Drug Co. in 1875, the sale of which in 1914 left him a millionaire. In 1916 his son-in-law, Arthur Waite, poisoned Peck and his wife with arsenic, for which Waite was executed at Sing Sing in 1917. In Near Fine Condition: 3 horizontal folds; clean and solid. Near Fine. Item #012193

Price: $24.00