Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 6,720
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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LEE, RICHARD HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, to Brigadier General George Weedon, describing the local militia's efforts and asking for instructions on two captured deserters. With postscript Signed "R.H. Lee." 3 pages, 4to, on a single folded sheet; seal hole on address leaf. Westmoreland [County, VA], 1 August 1781
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Lee has been urging neighboring counties to follow his own county's model for civil defense: "Since the country was first invaded by Arnold we have had a string of lookouts from the lower to the upper end of this county."