An original handwritten receipt dated April 27th, 1818, in the the hand of Isaac Darlington (1781-1839). The document records a payment from Townsend Haines for the amount of $1,543 for a debt involving a lawsuit, Gilpin v Allen in the Court of Common Please of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

[West Chester, PA]

1818

Signed by Isaac Darlington.

Approx. 7.5" x 4".

Creases from being folded, else in very good condition.

Isaac Darlington (December 13, 1781 – April 27, 1839) was an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives. Born in Westtown Township, Pennsylvania, he studied law, established a practice in West Chester, and served as a lieutenant and adjutant in the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress, he declined renomination in 1818. Post-congressional, he became deputy attorney general for Chester County and later presiding judge of the judicial district covering Chester and Delaware counties.

Darlington died on April 27, 1839, at his West Chester home and was buried in the Friends Burying Ground in Birmingham. His son-in-law, Thomas S. Bell, became a state senator and justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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