Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 49

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Large group of documents relating to Connecticut's role in the war. 68 items, various sizes and conditions. (MRS) Vp, 1775-83

Additional Details

Highlights include a bond from Samuel Canfield as Assistant Commissary to Henry Laurens as President of Congress, New Milford, CT, 26 July 1778 Pay order to Nathaniel Stanley for horses used by soldiers "on their way to Albany & Ticonderoga," 2 September 1775 Pay order to Jabez Hamlin for "suplhur & salt petre,' 12 January 1776. Includes 11 items signed by Oliver Ellsworth, 4 by Oliver Wolcott Junior, and 4 by General Jedediah Huntington. No inventory is available.