Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 339

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(REVOLUTION.) Contemporary manuscript true copy of an Extract from the Minutes of the New York Senate, in the hand of and Signed by the clerk Robert Benson, containing the text of a Resolution requesting that the Governor write to Brigadier General James Clinton, "to assure the Officers and Soldiers of the Troops of this State in the Service of the United States, that the Legislature have a high sense of their Services . . . and that they are now devising Ways and Means to provide them with Clothing and Necessaries and to make them a suitable Compensation at the conclusion of the War." 1 1/4 pages, single tall 4to sheet; minor toning,usual folds. Albany, 15 and 16 February 1780

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Clinton's brigade was spending the harsh winter with Washington's army at Morristown.<