Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--MASSACHUSETTS.) Small group of correspondence of Colonel Henry Jackson. 4 letters addressed to or by Jackson, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1778-82
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Cochran, John. Autograph Letter Signed as surgeon-general of the Middle Department, to Col. Jackson, recommending Darius Stoddard as surgeon, just eight days before the army left Valley Forge. Valley Forge, PA, 11 June 1778 Sewell, Henry. Autograph Letter Signed as lieutenant and deputy muster master, to Col. Jackson, requesting muster rolls. "Camp," 13 June 1778 Castaing, Pierre de. Letter Signed as aide-de-camp to General Du Portail, to "Colonel" [Jackson?], explaining his delayed arrival with the regiment. Philadelphia, 16 April 1782 Jackson, Henry. Letter Signed, retained draft as colonel of the 9th Massachusetts Infantry, to Lieutenant [Isaac] Sturtevant, relaying Steuben's orders that Sturtevant immediately return to his regiment, as "the Baron is determined to strike all officers off the rolls that are not absent by sickness or proper authority." "Huts at New Boston" [Hudson River, NY], 12 June 1782.