Apr 11, 2002 - Sale 1930

Sale 1930 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) STEUBEN, FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON. Autograph Letter Signed, to Governor George Clinton, asking his help to find a place to live on Long Island. 2 pages, folded 4to sheet with integral address leaf; usual folds, minor staining to address leaf. Albany, 23 July 1783
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"I had the honor some time since to mention to Your Excellency my desire of residing, or at least of having a place I might call my home in this State; the honor which the respectable City of Albany has lately been pleased to confer on me has increased my wishes to remain, while in America, with a people to whom I am so much indebted. I have been informed that a certain Mr. Axtell was possessed of a small estate on Long Island, that it is forfited [sic] & perhaps will be speedily sold . . ."<