Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 147
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BROOKS, JOHN. Partly-printed Document Signed, "J. Brooks," as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Massachusetts, a military commission appointing Nathan C. Martin a Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Infantry. Approximately 9 1/2x15 inches; folds, docketed on verso with some bleed-through, seal intact. [Boston], 8 July 1817

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Brooks (1752-1825) was a soldier in the Revolution and the last Federalist governor in Massachusetts.