?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LIQUOR LICENSE PETITION HANCOCK, JOHN. Endorsement Signed, recommending that petitioner Joshua Beal be granted a license to sell spirits: "We the Subscribers recommend the within named as a Person of sober life & conversation suitably qualified & provided for the exercise of the employment of an In[n]holder," written and Signed on third page, additionally signed by 6 other subscribers. The petition, a letter from Beal to the Boston Selectmen at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, remarking that the "House where your Pet[itione]r [writing of himself in third person] lives has been a Tavern many years past, and for twelve months last past to support his Family he has kept a victualling House, which many times requires strong Drink to be given to his customers . . . ." 2 pages, small 4to, written on a folded sheet; short closed separations at folds including one through Hancock signature (without loss), few small closed holes touching Samuel Austin and Timothy Newell signatures repaired verso with tissue, faint scattered bleedthrough, owner inscription below signatures in unknown hand ("Sent me by L.M. Sargent Esq. in 1852"). Boston, 4 August 1773 [from petition]
