Nov 29, 2012 - Sale 2296

Sale 2296 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) CLINTON, GEORGE. Autograph Letter Signed, "GeoClinton," to Colonel Samuel B. Webb, proposing to send a flag and money to New York for the prisoners taken at Fort Montgomery and asking him to send money. 1 page, 8vo, with integral address leaf addressed in his hand; complete separations at folds repaired verso with tissue, minor foxing. (JMR) New Windsor, 7 November 1777

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". . . I propose sending a Flagg to New York a few Days hence with Necessaries for our Prisoners taken at Fort Montgomery, and wish to send them as much hard Money as I can possibly collect. . . ."