(COLONIAL WARS) Garfield Samuel Letter from a Massachusetts

Sale 2473 - Lot 80

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(COLONIAL WARS.) Garfield, Samuel. Letter from a Massachusetts soldier on the campaign to take Montreal. Autograph Letter Signed to wife Abigail of Spencer, MA. One page, 10 x 7 1/4 inches, with address panel on verso (no postal markings); minor wear and foxing. "Flat Bush, 6 miles above Albany," NY, 10 June 1758

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This letter reads in part "We are now arived at Hudson River and has had a tedious march through the woods. We exspect to march from this place in a short time and our friends and neighbours are well at present." Samuel Garfield lived from 1720 to 1792; his gravestone in Spencer, MA reads "A soldier in two colonial wars, a patriot in the Revolution."