Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 2,750
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Leaf from the memoir of a Boston-area clergyman describing the events leading up to Bunker Hill. 2 manuscript pages, 7 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; disbound, minor wear. (MRS) Np, undated
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In part: "The 100 soldiers at Marshfield embarked for Boston in a day or two, where their army was confined till the next year. On Lordsday, April 23, I preached in the forenoon from 1 Chron. 12:32 and . . . endeavoured to apply it to our present case . . . that the blood that had now been shed was to enforce the claim of the British parliament to bind America in all cases whatsoever, which was contrary to all equity & an open violation of the national constitution which the King had sworn to maintain. . . . An army was soon collected to Boston & Cambridge and Dr. Joseph Warren being appointed a general, he with a party of men began an entrenchment on the heights at Charlestown in the night after June 16, upon which the main of the British forces at Boston by land and water were sent against them the next day." The text concludes with an extract from Burgoyne's famous 25 June letter describing the Battle of Bunker Hill. Provenance: Sotheby's London sale to benefit the Manuscript Society, 27 May 1986, lot 412, to the consignor.