Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 263

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(RHODE ISLAND.) Group of miscellaneous Rhode Island manuscripts, newspapers, and printed ephemera. 14 items, various sizes and conditions. (MRS) Vp, 1676-1842
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Manuscripts include: Vellum deed from Francis Brinley of Rhode Island to Thomas Brinley for property in England, witnessed on verso by Governor Benedict Arnold and James Clarke, 5 March 1676 William Vernon signed receipt, 17 June 1767 Brown and Ives partly-printed import certificate for tea, 1 April 1803 Manuscript genealogy of the Greene family concluding with birth of "our son" Nathanael Greene in 1742; quite worn and apparently a later transcript Certificate for Samuel P. Allen signed by Governor James Fenner, 1808.
Printed material includes: circular letter from the cotton manufacturers of Providence regarding a foreign competition, 20 October 1815 Dorr Rebellion broadside titled "Sayles, the Speaker of the Foundry House of Representatives, in the Field" (DeSimone 130) Two newspapers discussing the Dorr Rebellion (Albany Weekly Argus of 21 May 1842 and Boston Times of 15 April 1842) Providence Gazette and Country Journal, 25 July 1789 Providence Manufacturers' and Farmers' Journal, 20 September 1824 Providence Patriot, 17 June 1815 with news of peace treaty Newport Mercury, 20 April 1802 and 8 August 1807.