Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) CLINTON, GEORGE. Autograph Letter Signed, "GeoClinton," to "Dear Sir" [Captain Thomas Machin], inquiring how to repair a piece of artillery the fastest, ordering him to send the two 12-pounder guns, sending the brass 24-pounder from Fishkill, asking for news of his advance and, in a postscript, suggesting he use his scow to deliver the guns. 1 1/2 pages, tall 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; horizontal folds, scattered moderate foxing, toning to edges. (JMR) Fort Montgomery, 3 July 1777
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"Let one know immediately whether twelve Pounders, having the trunions broke off, can be quicker repaired by stocking them, or fixing new trunions to them. . . . [C]an't you spare . . . your Smith, to work a while at this business at Fort Constitution? . . . [S]end down the two twelve Pounders at New Windsor, with the ammunition . . . . I have ordered you the Brass 24-Pounder from Fishkill; . . . . if she should be lost at your Port you will be in Disgrace forever. . . . If you come here yourself on an alarm, . . . leave behind you some persons who can use the 24-lbr. . . . Gen. Putnam wants to know how you come forward . . . ."
The postscript: ". . . Won't your scow well-manned bring the Guns down quickest & easiest."