CLINTON GEORGE Letter Signed as Colonial Governor of New Yor

Sale 2139 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 390

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

CLINTON, GEORGE. Letter Signed, as Colonial Governor of New York, to the "Gentlemen of the Council," requesting clarification about whether each province is to support its own troops. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; blank leaf inlaid, short closed separations at folds of each leaf repaired, docketed on terminal page. New York, 20 October 1746

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

"Governour Shirby & Admiral Warren . . . gave it me as their opinion, that each province was to support their own troops, 'til Gen'l St. Clair arrived; but as Gov'r Bladen seems to conceive it otherwise, I must desire your opinion . . ."
Clinton (1686-1761), while governor of New York, headed an administration whose governance resulted in a permanent increase in popular control and a weakening of influence from the royal government.