Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PIRATES.) Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of. A commission signed by Captain Kidd's sponsor / persecutor. Document Signed "Bellomont" as governor of New York, one page, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; reinforced along edges, tastefully repaired at folds, minor foxing. [New York], 30 November 1698
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A commission issued to Onesimus Talmadge as ensign for Suffolk County. It was issued the year after Bellomont commissioned William Kidd as a privateer, and less than a year before he signed Kidd's arrest warrant.