Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 41

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SIGNER OF THE FINCASTLE RESOLUTIONS MONTGOMERY, JOHN. Two Autograph Letters Signed, to PA State Lottery Co-Manager David Jackson, reporting the number of Pennsylvania Lottery tickets he sold and returning some tickets [not present]. Together 1 1/2 pages, 8vo or 4to, each with integral address leaf; moderate dampstaining overall, few scattered small holes or separations at folds. Carlisle, 14 May; 27 July 1777

Additional Details

with--United States Lottery Ticket, No. 58m-122, Class the Third. Signed by co-manager John Mease. 2 1/4x5 1/2 inches; complete separation at vertical fold repaired with tissue verso. Philadelphia, 1776. One of 100,000; each originally sold for $30.
On January 20, 1775, the freeholders of Fincastle County in the Colony of Virginia met to elect a group of representatives to respond to the Declaration and Resolves of the Continental Congress recently adopted by that body. The Fincastle Resolutions was the statement signed by the representatives, declaring that the rights of the colonists "cannot be legally taken from them, altered or abridged by any power whatever, without their consent." It is among the earliest public assertions of American colonial independence from Britain.