Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(RHODE ISLAND.) Uncut sheet of Dorr Liberation Stock certificates from the Dorr Rebellion. 6 conjoined illustrated certificates on one sheet, 9 x 11 1/4 inches, each signed in printed facsimile by F.C. Treadwell as issued, and with the recipient and countersignature lines left blank; folds, minor wear; small early owner's signatures on recto and verso. Providence, RI, 28 October 1844
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Thomas Wilson Dorr led an armed revolt against Rhode Island's archaic property-based voting laws in 1842. He was arrested, and his supporters issued this stock to generate a defense fund. DeSimone & Schofield, Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion 53. We trace only 2 other examples of these slips at auction, one in OCLC, and none in uncut sheet form as seen here.

Inscribed on the sheet is the name "Kate Winkley." The only person we find in Rhode Island matching this name is Catherine Winkley (circa 1785-1867), who was living as the head of a household in Providence in the 1820, 1830, and 1840 censuses, alone in Cranston in the 1850 census, in 1865 as a matron at the Home for Aged Women, and as Miss Cate Winkley in the 1866 Providence directory, at the Home for Aged Females. Her death certificate (as Miss Catherine Winckley) is dated 3 April 1867.

Provenance: consignor's grandmother, who was raised in Rhode Island and died in 1990. Where the grandmother obtained it, we do not know--her adoptive mother was the daughter of John Mullin Jr. (1813-1887), listed as a laborer in Cranston, RI in the 1850 census.