Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) HEATH, WILLIAM. Autograph Letter Signed, "W. Heath," as Major General in the Continental Army, to governor [George] Clinton, requesting that he read, seal and forward to General Stark the enclosed letter [not present], and mentioning that he should already have received his letter of "yesterday on the subject of the frontiers . . ." With a postscript: "If you should think any aid from this quarter necessary, it shall be lent." 1 page, 4to; some fading to text but signature is clear, short separation at fold repaired. Head Quarters, Peeks Kill, 7 September 1781
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Before serving with little success as major-general beginning in 1777, Heath (1737-1814) was active in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress.