May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
PREPARING FOR THE DEFENSE OF PLATTSBURGH (WAR OF 1812.) BLOOMFIELD, JOSEPH. Letter Signed, "JosephBloomfield / Br.Gen'l. Command'g / Advance North'n Army," with 5 lines in holograph, to Col. Isaac Clark, ordering him to send supplies and field officers to Burlington, and to transport two cannons from Burlington to Plattsburgh. 2 pages, 4to, with integral blank; tissue repair to horizontal fold on page 2, minor loss at fold intersections. (MRS) Plattsburgh, 20 September 1812
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"You will repair to Burlington with the Tents, Camp Kettles and such supplies as you have in store and deliver the same to the militia of Vermont under the command of Gen'l Ames[?], and render this meritorious Corps every assistance in your power. . . .
"You will please order to this place the field officers of your Regiment. . . ."
The holograph lines: "There are two twelve pounders of brass at Burlington and which I wish you to have transported to this post to be mounted & placed in service."