Price: $300

White Plains [NY]: October 23d 1776. CONTINENTAL RECEIPT FROM THE SAW PITTS. An early receipt of the war, dated “White Plains Oct. 23d, 1776,” and written from the “Saw Pitts,” now Port Chester, NY, six days before the rout of the Continental Army at the Battle of White Plains, reading.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from the Continental Store at the "Saw Pitts" Add to Wish List

Item #308453

Price: $650

Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the.....  Read More Item Details for A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the Continental Army and Orders for Payments to be Made to His Estate Add to Wish List

Item #308429

Price: $475

Northumberland [VA]: April 29th 1814. DETERMINED ON A SEA LIFE. A former “belle of Philadelphia society,” now living in Virginia, who has been widowed and left in dire financial straits, writes to Biddle during the War of 1812, asking for his help in obtaining a naval commission for her son.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed "Sally D Moore" to Charles Biddle Add to Wish List

Item #308870

Price: $750

np: nd. RARE SIGNATURE OF PERRY'S PRECURSOR. Commodore James Biddle (1783-1848) made the first attempt to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Biddle, a distinguished naval officer from Philadelphia, and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, set out from New York with two warships, the.....  Read More Item Details for Signature clipped from a document [with] an engraving of Biddle Add to Wish List

Item #301620

Price: $150

Boston: 2, October 1791. RECIEVED INTO THE ALSMHOUSE. Between 1758 and 1800 the Boston Overseers of the Poor admitted around 7,200 persons into the almshouse. Polly Ballard would have been sent to the almshouse at the corner of Beacon and Park streets, in Boston, established in 1696, to replace the.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript Order, Signed “Edwd Edes Overseer” to Samuel Whitwell requesting that he “receive Polly Ballard into the Almshouse on the Towns Account.” Add to Wish List

Item #308540

Price: $150

Lancaster, Pa: May 15, 1817. Read More Item Details for Partly printed slip addressed to Mr. Casper Shaffiner, Jr..."You are desired to meet the Members of the Active Fire Company..." Add to Wish List

Item #228656

Price: $200

Grafton [MA]: January 26th 1785. TO MENDING A CROEBAR. A winsome illustration of the various jobs and skills required of an 18th century blacksmith. Services billed for include: “to Shoeing a Horse…to upseting (sic) an ax…to Hooping and Bailing a Kittle (sic)…to making a Staple and Ring…to making a Shave…to.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, Oath and Account, Signed “Solomon Leland Jus. of Peace” and “Levi Leland,” being an account of services rendered to Dr. Timothy Darling, February 5th,1780 and “hard money” owed by his estate to Levi Leland Add to Wish List

Item #308574

Price: $750

New York City: August 28, 1854. A SURPRISINGLY POIGNANT POEM FROM A HARDENED VETERAN. Romantic in a style befitting the era, Farnum offers a graphic account of a a heart-wrenching scene from battle, which he describes as ”carelessly written but respectfully dedicated to Maria L. Green.” Reading in part: …”Where.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Document, Signed, "J. Egbert Farnum late of the U.S.A." Being a hand-written poem relating an incident of the Mexican American War Add to Wish List

Item #307508

Price: $100

Philadelphia: 1798. Document stating the debt of 350 pounds of August Gunther to Wilham Griffe. Signed by Gunther. Read More Item Details for Partially Printed Document: between August Gunther and Wilham Griffe for £350 Add to Wish List

Item #228654

Price: $150

Monrovia [CA]: April 30, 1965. ADVICE FROM ONE AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR TO ANOTHER. Reading: "Dear Mr. Mueller, I too collected autographs - when I was young. I was taught always to enclose a stamped and addressed envelope for return. Go thou and do likewise! Best wishes, Upton Sinclair" Pulitzer prize winning.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, Signed, Upton Sinclair to Mr. Mueller in response to a request for an autograph Add to Wish List

Item #308794

Price: $500

London: 10 February 1807. US CONGRESSMAN AND CONSULATE. A manuscript by John Mitchell, Notary Public of London, certifying to the signature of the Mayor of London "at foot of the annexed Affidavit and to the Exhibit on the List of debts," to which William Lyman attests "that Mr. John Mitchell.....  Read More Item Details for Autograph Maunscript, Signed "William Lyman Esq, Consul of the United States of America for the Port of London" Add to Wish List

Item #309431