May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) SCHUYLER, PHILIP. Autograph Letter Signed, "Ph. Schuyler," to Governor George Clinton, elaborately requesting a passport to permit a woman to visit her ailing sister in New York. 1 1/4 pages, small folio, written on recto and verso of a single sheet; moderate toning, faint scattered foxing, folds, horizontal fold through signature (without loss), address panel and docketing verso. (MRS) Saratoga, 4 November 1778

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"Mr. William Henry Ludlow of Claverack has a sister at New York who is so ill that there are little hopes of her recovery she wishes to see Miss Patty Ludlow and has requested me to Intreat Your Excellency to permit her to go . . . ."