Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ISSUED THE DAY BEFORE BEING MORTALLY WOUNDED AT BUNKER HILL (BUNKER HILL.) GARDNER, THOMAS. Autograph Note Signed, "Tho. Gardner Col," as colonel of his Massachusetts regiment, to Major [Nathaniel] Barber as commissary of military stores, reading "Please to let Capt. Child have 3 pouches and 30 rounds of cartrages." 1 page, 3 x 6 inches; note on verso "Rec'd thirty rounds" signed by Abijah Childs as captain; folds, minor soiling on verso. "Head Quarters, Cambridge" [MA], 16 June 1775
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Thomas Gardner (1724-1775) had served in the revolutionary Massachusetts Congress and on the Committee of Safety. The day after issuing this note, he was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill, dying two weeks later. He was one of the most prominent American officers to die so early in the war. The town of Gardner, MA was named in his honor.