Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 319

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MILITARY--REVOLUTIONARY WAR.) A petition on behalf of Shadrach Underwood, an African American veteran of the Revolution, now sixty-three years old and blind. Single large folio leaf, folded to form four pages, written on two sides with a portion on a third; docketed on the fourth; short, closed tear at one fold. Norwich, CT, 10 July 1820
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Shadrach Underwood served with Colonel Thomas Grosvenor's company in 1780 and later in 1782 with Captain Sheed's company, also in Connecticut. He was honorably discharged at West Point.