1790 Moses Myers ALS (Stephen Girard agent), Robert Taylor & Jonathan Lawrence thrice signed Norfolk, VA straightline letter to Nicholas Low, New York CIty

March 18, 1790 letter from Norfolk VA addressed to Nicholas Low, Merchant, New York. Straightline cancel March 20, 1790.  3.8 1/8 rate. Letter written by Moses Myers, prominent Jewish Merchant of Norfolk, includes a signed testimony of sale by Jonathon Lawrence and Robert Taylor.  Low, a prominent merchant and correspondent with many founders, was active in early US banking in New York with the First United States Bank as well as the earlier Bank of North America that was organized to finance the Revolutionary War.  MYERS, MOSES (1752–1835), U.S. merchant and civic leader. Moses Myers, the son of Haym and Rachel Louzada Myers, was born in New York City. For a time he was a junior partner in Isaac Moses & Co., a New York import-export firm, but the bankruptcy of Isaac *Moses in 1786 led Moses Myers to seek a new enterprise. With his friend Samuel *Myers, also a junior partner in the bankrupted firm, he opened a store in Norfolk, Virginia, 1787. After Samuel moved to Petersburg, Virg