Lot 1202

Description

New South Wales five per cent debentures, Indenture dated 7 April 1860 for settlement of five hundred pounds of aforesaid stock between Mary Ann Brown of Middlesex and Rev.Henry William Watson and Rev.John Rowe, advanced for making some provision for her neice Eleanor Mary Strong, a large handwritten document signed and sealed under wax by the first three parties and with affixed £1.5.- duty and stamped London 8.2.60; also credit note No.28 from National Bank, Bayswater to Bank of New South Wales, Melbourne dated 1 Oct 1866 for £55.11.- to account of John Matthias Spread, on The National Bank watermarked paper, with impressed one penny duty stamp and with black vertical print 'DUPLICATE'. Very fine. (2)

Reverend Henry William Watson was a mathemetician and author of a number of mathematics books. He and Francis Galton introduced the Galton-Watson Process in 1875. John Matthias Spread was born at Cork, Ireland in 1841 and died in Narraburra, Temora, NSW on 31 March 1909.