May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) THOMSON, CHARLES. Document Signed, "Cha'sThomson Sec'y," as Secretary of the Continental Congress, a Congressional order that supplies for the Continental Army be urgently procured from CT, NY, PA and DE. 1 page, small folio; moderate scattered staining affecting few letters of text, moderate toning overall, two small holes at upper right, hinged along right edge verso to larger sheet, some bleedthrough from docketing verso. (MRS) [Philadelphia], 12 January 1780
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"The Committee to whom was referred the Letter of 5th instant from Gen'l Washington inclosing a Letter of the 3d from Royal Flint Ass't Comm'g and one of the 4th from Brig[adie]r [General] Irwine brought in a report, whereupon [it was] Ordered, That . . . the said Letters as far as they respect the distress of the Army from the want of provisions, be sent with all possible dispatch to the Legislatures . . . and that they be respectively urged in the most pressing manner to send immediate supplies of provisions to the Army."