Sep 26, 2019 - Sale 2517

Sale 2517 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1780.) Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in New-England. 53 pages. Folio, disbound; minor foxing; uncut. Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1781

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Contains resolves from 28 October to 4 December 1780, most relating to the war, notably a resolve setting an alliance with the Penobscot tribe (page 9); "Resolve making an establishment for the company of matrosses . . . under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Revere" (page 12); a grant to Isaac Freeman "for losses sustained at the battle of Bunker-Hill" (page 22); and much more. Evans 16850.