Apr 27, 2006 - Sale 2077

Sale 2077 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 2,300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) GREEN, JEREMIAH AND GRAY, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, by Green and Gray, both members of the Standing Committee of the First Church of Boston, to Samuel Cooper and the Committee of the Old South Church, offering the use of their church to other congregations. 1 page, folded 8vo sheet with integral address leaf; minor staining. Boston, 5 April 1776

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"As it has pleas'd almighty God in his holy Providence to permitt the King's Troops to enter & take possession of the Town of Boston & make great havock among the Churches & there not remaining now more than two, or three of them fit for the publick worship, We the Committee of the Old Brick Church do wth pleasure open the Doors of Our Church & bid you hearty welcome either to meet with us when we meet or at other times when it shall sute you best . . ."