Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 875
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1781.) Gansevoort, Peter. Letter ordering relocation of Loyalists and other suspects on the New York frontier. Letter Signed as Brigadier General in the New York Militia to Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Van Vighten [Vechten] in Saratoga, NY. One page, 13 x 8 inches, with address panel (marked only "public service") and docketing on verso; worn with loss to four words. (MRS) Albany, NY, 25 May 1781
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Gansevoort orders his colonel to remove from the Saratoga frontier area "all such persons & families who . . . you, with the advice of your field officers, . . . may deem to be dangerous & disaffected . . . from their respective habitations to the interior parts of this state, without the least delay." with--the manuscript enclosure, "Extract of the Law Entitled An Act to Accommodate the Inhabitants of the Frontiers with Habitations." One page, 13 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, with docketing on verso; only minor wear.