Lot 3042

Description

USA, bills of exchange, 1849-53, all in sterling directed to London firms and issued by Rallis & Co, New Orleans, J.E.Thayer & Brothers, Boston, M.Morgan & Son, New York, all for one thousand pounds, and James G.King & Sons, New York, this last to the order of Masterton Ure for three thousand pounds. The last with one corner missing otherwise fine - very fine. (4)

Masterton Ure (1777-1863), was a Scottish attorney. He was active in political affairs of Weymouth overseeing the passage of the Weymouth Bridge Bill in 1820 and in that same year delivering the corporation's loyal addresses to George IV. He was also guardian to the son of the late Sir John Lowther Johnstone of Westerhall, Dumfriesshire. Ure died at his home in Middlesex in March 1863.



With research.