Lot 9157: Autograph ms fragment, Daniel Boone

BOONE, DANIEL. 1734-1820.
Autograph Manuscript, fragment, 1p, 4 by 8 inches, n.p., [1784], being a list of expenses occurred in surveying a plot of land belonging to Isaac Winston, on the verso of an agreement to do the same, document laid down to sheet bearing inscription and signature of Lyman C. Draper authenticating the Boone handwriting, some creasing, toning, soiling, staining, mounting remnant to left margin of verso.
The agreement on the reverse of the Boone inscription explains this document: "Received of Waller Oviston February 27th 1784 two land warrants the property of Isaac Winston of Hanover County (Virginia) Containing Eleven thousand Eight Hundred & Seventy five Acres which I, Daniel Boon [sic] of Fayette County & state aforesaid do oblige myself to locate Survey & patent on the aforesaid Winston's Paying all the Expence In Witness Hereoff I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the date above written." The signature, however, is clipped. On the reverse, however, Boone's handwritten invoice is preserved: "The Exspences of the Within Land of Mr. Winstons Survay 9 3 8 / [?] fees 7 14 0 / provistion 26.17.8." Most likely the original signature on this document was clipped by family members for one autograph seeker, and the invoice was sent to another. The inscription by Lyman Draper seems to support this theory: "I certify that the preceding fragment is in the hand writing of Col. Danl Boone-well known to me to be such--& obtained in 1851 from Col. Nathan Boone of Missouri, til then last surviving child of Dl Boone, since decd. / Lyman C. Draper / Corr. Sec. Wis. Hist. Soc. / July, 1867."