GARDNER HENRY Partly printed Document Signed HGardner as Tre

Sale 2483 - Lot 19

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GARDNER, HENRY. Partly-printed Document Signed, "HGardner," as Treasurer of Massachusetts, ordering the sheriff of Lincoln County to obtain from the officials of Pownalborough, Maine, the unused funds intended for the recruitment of troops. 1 page, 14 3/4x11 3/4 inches; worn at edges, closed separations at folds. Boston, 16 May 1782

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To help fill heavy recruitment quotas during the war, Massachuestts sent funds directly to its towns to pay bounties. Troops were hard to come by, and some of the money went unspent. This printed broadside form was used to claw this money back into the state coffers. Azariah Pottle, constable of Pownalborough (now Dresden, Maine) was ordered to return £752 or face "the sale of the estate, real and personal" or be committed "unto the Gaol of the County, there to remain until he hath paid."
Provenance: Walpole Galleries auction, 24 October 1916 (catalogue entry laid down on verso); Charles Hamilton auction, 22 September 1966; sold by the William Reese Company to the consignor.