Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
NELSON, THOMAS. Letter Signed, "Thos Nelson Jr," as Governor of Virginia, to Brigadier General George Weedon, introducing the supply agent for De Choisy's army. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; 2 small seal holes on address leaf. "Camp before York" [Yorktown, VA], 14 October 1781

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"Colo. Saml. Temple, the gentleman who will deliver this to you, is appointed to superintend on the part of the state the supplying the detachment of the French Army under General De Choisy. . . . The interest of the state being the object of these precautions, I need not apologize for the trouble I am giving you."