Apr 11, 2002 - Sale 1930

Sale 1930 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) CLINTON, GEORGE. Letter Signed, to Colonel Loran, advising him that General Green has been sent to the region by "his Excellency Genl. Washington" to view the forts and to determine which need further reinforcements. 1 page, single folio sheet; usual folds, minor toning and staining. Fort Montgomery, 19 May 1777

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"Genl. Green who was lately sent up to this quarter by his Excellency Genl. Washington to take a view of the Forts & passes in the Highlands & to order such new works as might to him appear necessary . . . has directed the erecting of two or three Redoubts at your Fort . . . I have not the least doubt but you will exert yourself in completing them with all possible expedition as we have reason to believe they will soon be wanted . . ."<