Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1780.) Whereas the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army has Earnestly Requested a Detachment. 4 pages, 12 x 8 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; minor wear, folds; uncut, signed in type by John Hancock and John Avery. (MRS) [Boston: John Gill], 22 June 1780
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives resolves "that there be immediately, four thousand seven hundred and twenty-six men raised or detached from the militia within the several towns and plantations in this state." A lengthy table listing the number of recruits required from each town is appended, from 162 to be furnished by Boston to the single soldier requested of several frontier towns in Maine. Evans 16858; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides, 2244. None known at auction since 1981.