1826 Andrew Oehler Washington DC Manuscript

Rare original 1826 handwritten Washington City, District of Columbia legal manuscript evidently associated with Andrew Oehler (also spelled Ohler/Ochler), the early American adventurer and author of The Life, Adventures, and Unparalleled Sufferings of Andrew Oehler published in 1811.

This fascinating Federal-era indenture concerns debts, judgments, real property, and household furnishings in Washington City and appears to document the financial affairs of Oehler during the later years of his life.

The manuscript references:

Washington City

Washington County, D.C.

debts and judgments

furniture and household goods

conveyance/security agreements

An exceptional piece combining:

early Washington D.C. history

Federal Americana

literary/autobiographical interest

early American travel history

Andrew Oehler

Andrew Oehler was a fascinating early American figure who published:

The Life, Adventures, and Unparalleled Sufferings of Andrew Oehler (1811)

The work recounts travels through:

France

Italy

the Caribbean

parts of the United States

and describes imprisonment in Europe during the Napoleonic era.

Scholarly references describe him as:

a Swiss carpenter

traveler

balloonist/showman

sometime soldier

itinerant adventurer active in the Atlantic world around 1800.

The surname spelling variations in your manuscript are normal for the period:

Oehler

Ohler

Ochler

all appear in early 19th-century records.