Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. Partly-printed Document Signed, as Governor-General, ship's papers for the Schooner Lively, in French. Countersigned by U.S. Consul General Edward Stevens after a description of cargo and destination, in secretarial hand, in English, on second page. 2 pages, 4to, with integral blank; minor chipping to edges, faint toning at upper quarter of each page, folds. [Cap-Haïtien, 9 December 1800]
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". . . the Schooner Lively of Norfolks of 55 tons, Commanded by the Captin Christopher Tompkins, navigated by 6 men, mounting no guns, and her Cargo consisting of Provisions and Dry goods [is] to proceed along the Coast . . . from the Port of Cap Français to those of Aux Cayes and Jacmel . . . ."