Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Trumbull, Joseph. Letter of support from the Committee of Correspondence of Norwich to Boston. Autograph Letter Signed "Jos: Trumbull," retained draft with some emendations. 2 pages, 8 x 6 inches, on one sheet; minor wear, ink burn in signature. Norwich, CT, 6 June 1774

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Joseph Trumbull (1737-1778) wrote on behalf of the Norwich Committee of Correspondence. In little over a year, he would be the first Commissary General of the Continental Army. "We most sensibly feel for the sufferings of the town of Boston, & consider ourselves as deeply interested therein, as we doubt not the idea of administration is to adopt the old Latin maxim divide & impera. You are the first to be sacrificed, we must follow in our turn. You are called by Providence to stand foremost in the contest for those liberties wherewith God & Nature have made us free. Stand firm therefore in your lots, & prove the apparent temper of our people. We may assure you of every support in the power of this town to afford you in the glorious struggle. The firmness of the town of Boston heretofore exerted leaves us no room to doubt oft, at this alarming crisis. Surely it never was more needed than on the present trying occasion." Provenance: Property of Mrs. A.R. Street in 1859, when it was published in Gilman's "Historical Discourse Delivered in Norwich, Connecticut"; June 1892, offered in Walter Benjamin's autograph catalogue in The Collector.