Rare Early Document with Signature of Richard Edgecombe, Colonial NORTH CAROLINA interest

1720. Partial original document with signatures including Richard Edgecombe. No date on document, but ca. 1720s-1730s. Richard Edgecombe is who Edgecombe County in North Carolina was named after in 1741.

Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, PC (23 April 1680 – 22 November 1758) of Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 until 1742 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Edgcumbe. He is memorialised by Edgecombe County, North Carolina.[1]. Item #100278

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