Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ORDERING MEDICAL SUPPLIES (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) HEATH, WILLIAM. Letter Signed, "WHeath MG," to Deputy Paymaster General Ebenezer Hancock, ordering him to pay Samuel Barrett & Co. $6,364 "to pay for Sundry Hospital Stores purchased by order of Doct. Foster." Countersigned by Seth Loring and Samuel Barrett. Written on verso of an Autograph Letter Signed by Foster to Samuel Barrett, referring the matter to Heath. 1 page, 4to, with a separated blank; separations at folds repaired with tape, mildew staining. sold as is. Boston, 15 November 1777

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Heath (1737-1814) was a Major General in the Revolution who commanded the Eastern District, 1777-79, and the lower Hudson, 1779-83.