Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441
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Sale 2441 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--MOUNT VERNON.) [WASHINGTON, JOHN AUGUSTINE.] Letter concerning assistance to be provided for Captain John Ambler, leader of the nightly slave patrols. Single 4to leaf of hand laid paper, written on one side only, addressed to Captain Ambler on the reverse; some wear and stains, but altogether whole and legible Np, [Northern Virginia, circa 1830's or 1840's
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"Sir; As Capt. Ambler has been out three nights on the patrols, I think it requisite that we assist him, if you will get a magistrate to issue orders for the troops to turn out to night, I will take charge of things as I suppose you have not got a list of the troops, I have taken the liberty to enclose a list of nine men which is one half of troopers that are in town. [I] think it would [be] right to have them [ ? ] for Thursday night, I would have called on you in person, but I am to leave town before breakfast; be so good as to ishue (sic) orders to assign C Abrams to sworn in the new men meet me at 9 o'clock at Court House, which is the place of redevouse (sic). Your friend, Dick Locke.' the paper this letter is written on is 18th century hand laid paper, suggesting it is of earlier date than the other mount vernon pieces which follow.