6/28/2012 - American History: Online Auction

 
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    Lot #1
    Gray, Harrison, Treasurer of Massachusetts Bay, Royalist (1711-1794). ANS, 5 x 7.5 in., Boston, 13 Nov. 1760. Recd. of Mr. John Cushing Collectr. of Excise for the County of Plymouth for 1760 Three ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #2
    2pp, 7.5 x 13 in., York Town, 18 June 1793. ...I have purchased from the heirs & legal representatives of Peter Willhelm deceased a tract of Land situate in York Township, York County, which the de ...
    Price Realized: $35.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #3
    John Hart (1711-1779).  New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of the Independence.  Document signed twice, June 18, 1761, an inventory of the estate o ...
    Price Realized: $499.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #4
    General James Robertson (1717-1788). British Army General who participated in American Revolution and served as civil governor of the Province of New York 1779-83. Signed partially printed pay receipt ...
    Price Realized: $70.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #5
    Owen Biddle (1737-1799).  American Patriot and Revolutionary War colonel, also noted as an astronomer, scientist, architect, clockmaker, and  watchmaker in Philadelphia.  ALS, 1p, 6 x 7 ...
    Price Realized: $58.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #6
    Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807).  American revolutionary, one of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  ANS, May 19, 1777, at Hartford, a paym ...
    Price Realized: $117.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #7
    Samuel Adams (1722-1803).  American revolutionary and Founding Father; Fourth Governor of Massachusetts (1794-97). Document signed by Massachusetts Bay Council, laid paper, originally, 15.75 x 13 in., ...
    Price Realized: $646.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #8
    Lot of 2.

    John Montgomery (c.1750-1794).  American pioneer, of the Cumberland Gap and Tennessee, and Revolutionary War soldier.  Two ANsS, dated May 14, 1777, and July 27, 177 ...
    Price Realized: $105.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #9
    Lot of 13. ADS, account sheet for Jelles Fonda from William Walker, 2pp, 7 x 11.75 in., Linon (New York?), 3 Jan. 1791. Account for transportation over about 3 years, 7 Jan. 1788 to Jan. 1791, plus in ...
    Price Realized: $152.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #10
    Lot of 4, including:

    Document signed by Jedidiah Huntington (1743-1818), general in the Continental Army and organizer of the Society of the Cincinnati, a State of Connecticut unpaid ta ...
    Price Realized: $199.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #11
    ANS, 1p, 23 July 1798. Howe, William. British Commander-in-Chief during American Revolution. To M. General Barton: You will be pleased to take the leave of absence required by your letter of yester ...
    Price Realized: $352.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #12
    Partially printed DS, from General Mathieu Dumas (1753-1837), with "Head of State" (Chef de l'Etat) crossed out and Councillor d'etat written in. Armee de Republique ...
    Price Realized: $47.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #13
    Melville, Thomas (1751-1832).  Participant in the Boston Tea Party, Major and naval officer in the American Revolution.  DS, April 14, 1817, Boston; a Port of Boston merchandise receipt for ...
    Price Realized: $152.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #14
    Portfolio, missing its title page and publication information, but ca. late 19th century (possibly printed for centennial of French Revolution). Each heavy sheet 10.5 x 13.5 in. All in folder with clo ...
    Price Realized: $176.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #15
    Lot of 2, including State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Four Dollar Note, dated July 2, 1780 (No. 71); plus Maryland Two Dollars Note, dated April 10, 1774 (No. 11007). Both pieces of cur ...
    Price Realized: $440.63 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #16
    Copper, with 1859 copyright to Samuel H. Black, New York, featuring John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence surrounded by the raised text of the Declaration and with the signatures repr ...
    Price Realized: $141.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #18
    A ca 1861 E. Anthony CDV from a Brady negative of Senator Charles Sumner (1811-1874), the outspoken Massachusetts abolitionist who served as the leader of the Radical Republicans during and after the ...
    Price Realized: $117.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #19
    Full plate tinted tintype of a cavalryman displaying a sword and revolver.  Modern identification as Sgt. Andrew Smith (b. May 29, 1837 - d. 1864), Co. K, 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, though t ...
    Price Realized: $293.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #20
    Lot of 5 photographs in 4 Union cases, including: a sixth plate tinted ambrotype of an unidentified soldier wearing a Co. K cavalry cap; two sixth plate tintypes of unidentified soldiers, in the same ...
    Price Realized: $499.38 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #21
    Sixth plate tinted ambrotype of a Union soldier displaying his sword and revolver.  Housed in a geometric Union case with penciled identification William Beauregard Bridges, Marion, AL Oct. 9, ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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