A rare 237-year-old copy of the US Constitution has been sold at auction for a whopping $9m (7m). The document was discovered in a historic building in North Carolina in 2022, inside a dusty old filing cabinet.
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... The Constitution was uncovered two years ago at a historical plantation once owned by Samuel Johnston, who was the North Carolina governor at the time the document was written. ...
Hayes Plantation
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... Hayes Farm, also known as Hayes Plantation, is a historic plantation near Edenton, North Carolina that belonged to Samuel Johnston (1733"1816), who served as Governor of North Carolina from 1787 to 1789. Johnston became one of the state's first two United States Senators, serving from 1789 until 1793, and served later as a judge until retiring in 1803. Samuel Johnston died in 1816 at "the Hermitage," his home near Williamston in Martin County, N.C.
The residence known as Hayes was completed by his son, James Cathcart Johnston, a year after Samuel's death. There are numerous other structures on the property, some predating the Hayes house itself, including the Hayes Gatehouse, which James Johnston lived in prior to the construction of the Hayes house. ...
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