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Autographed Manuscript Continental Army Discharge, Signed "RJ Meigs" to Corporal Robert Stiles. American Revolution, Col. R.eturn J.onathan Meigs.

HAVING SERVED THREE YEARS FAITHFULLY

Autographed Manuscript Continental Army Discharge, Signed "RJ Meigs" to Corporal Robert Stiles.

Westfield, [New Jersey]: April,1780. HAVING SERVED THREE YEARS FAITHFULLY. An unembellished but compelling historical testament of dutiful service during the Revolutionary War, signed on the verso by four quartemasters that supplied provisions for Stiles' long walk home to Connecticut. Reading: “Westfield, April 1780” “Corpl Robbert (sic) Stiles having served three years faithfully the... Read More

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Autographed Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from the Continental Store at the "Saw Pitts" American Revolution, Frederick Tracy.

CONTINENTAL RECEIPT FROM THE SAW PITTS

Autographed Manuscript Receipt, Signed "Frederick Tracy" for eight barrels of flour from the Continental Store at the "Saw Pitts"

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

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Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town (New Jersey) regarding an order for lumber from the Mersereau and his brother, John. American Revolution, Richard Wescoat.

Entrepreneurs of the Revolution

Autograph Letter signed ("Rich Wescoat") to Major JOSHUA MERSEREAU in Elizabeth Town (New Jersey) regarding an order for lumber from...

[Burlington]: 7 April 1783. Entrepreneurs of the Revolution. The lands contained all the necessary materials for shipbuilding, and in the Revolutionary War its "bog iron" made cannon balls while its hidden coves sheltered privateers. Blast furnaces, sawmills, glass factories, and brick and tile works followed until the Industrial Revolution drew... Read More

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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier. Selected by a Member of the Philadelphia Bar. American Revolution, William Pitt, Lord Chatham.

Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine. To Which is Added the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of...

Philadelphia: Key & Biddle, 1834. First Edition. Collects speeches by Chatham, Burke and Erskine concerning legal issues connected with the American Revolution and other topics, as well as Mackintosh's speech in the trial of Peltier, a French Royalist emigré, for libel of the First Consul of the French Republic (Buonaparte). Read More

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Autographed Document Receipt, Signed "Danl Everts" "being the balance due to me on the first day of January last, as stated by the Committees of the State and of the Army." American Revolution.

BALANCE DUE FOR THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY

Autographed Document Receipt, Signed "Danl Everts" "being the balance due to me on the first day of January last, as...

Hartford [CT]: September 8 1780. BALANCE DUE FOR THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. From the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776, to the brutal winter encampment in Morristown, New Jersey in 1779-1780, Daniel Everts (1749-1833) was a participant and witness to some of the most crucial periods of... Read More

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Autographed Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" to John Lawrence, for payment to the widow of Col. William Douglas for "Extraordinary Trouble in obtaining Pay for his Regt." American Revolution.

SMALL COMPENSATION FOR A LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST

Autographed Manuscript Order, Signed "James Church" and "O[liver] Ellsworth" to John Lawrence, for payment to the widow of Col. William...

Hartford [CT]: June 28th 1777. SMALL COMPENSATION FOR A LIFE AND FORTUNE LOST. An important testament offering proof of the sacrifice and hardship of a memorialized Connecticut hero signed by one of it's favorite sons, reading: "Sir pay to Hannah Douglas Executrise (sic) to the Estate of Col. William Douglas... Read More

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Autographed Manuscript Order, Signed "William Moseley" and "John Lawrence Esq." for payment from the State of Connecticut to David Hills for "Beef Supplies." American Revolution.

PROVISIONS FROM THE "PROVISION STATE"

Autographed Manuscript Order, Signed "William Moseley" and "John Lawrence Esq." for payment from the State of Connecticut to David Hills...

Hartford [CT]: Nov. 27th 1781. PROVISIONS FROM THE "PROVISION STATE" A document portraying the way in which the state of Connecticut paid for soldiers and provisions for it’s troops and the Continental Army. Dubbed “The Provision State” by George Washington, Connecticut supplied more food and cannons for the war than... Read More

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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. American Revolution.

A SOLDIER FOR JUST FIVE WEEKS

A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the Continental Army and...

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

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Manuscript document from a ""Committee"" of Sudbury, Mass., appointed to estmate the "services of the several inhabitants [of Sudbury] … in the present war with Great Britain from the 19th April, 1775 [Battle of Concord], to the present time”. American Revolution.

Paying the Minute Men of Sudbury

Manuscript document from a ""Committee"" of Sudbury, Mass., appointed to estmate the "services of the several inhabitants [of Sudbury] …...

[Sudbury, Mass.]: n.d. [ca. 1777]. Paying the Minute Men of Sudbury. A calculation of the services of the Sudbury militia who contributed greatly to the defense of the surrounding communities, begining with the Battle after Lexington & Concord, on, 19 April, 1775. The estimates are divided by communties served, and... Read More

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Photograph of the elm tree (now gone) of Cambridge, Mass., under which George Washington (by legend) took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. American Revolution.

The Legendary Washington Elm

Photograph of the elm tree (now gone) of Cambridge, Mass., under which George Washington (by legend) took command of the...

[Cambridge, Mass: ca. 1920?]. The Legendary Washington Elm. Fine large photograph of the "Washington elm", which was enshrined in 1902 and died a little over twenty years later. This photograph shows the tree already moribund, with monument beneath bearing the carved inscription which preserved the legend: UNDER THIS TREE WASHINGTON... Read More

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Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l'Isle de C***. Anonymous.

Contemporary Satire of Rousseau’s ‘Émile’

Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de l'Isle de C***...

Paris: Desventes de Ladoué, 1770. First edition. Contemporary Satire of Rousseau’s ‘Émile’. A satirical response to Rousseau’s Emile ou l'Education (1762). Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor, the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau’s dictum “le véritable précepteur est le père”, for the narrator’s... Read More

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Autograph Letter, signed (“B Arnold”), to the Adjutant Quartermaster General, requesting fresh horses. Benedict Arnold.

Requesting Horses For Courier Duty, Possibly to the English

Autograph Letter, signed (“B Arnold”), to the Adjutant Quartermaster General, requesting fresh horses.

Headquarters, Robinson House [Garrison, N.Y.]: Sept. 1, 1780. Requesting Horses For Courier Duty, Possibly to the English. A letter written by General Benedict Arnold the day after receiving word that British General Henry Clinton had agreed to his price for turning his coat.  In his letter, Arnold requests fresh horses... Read More

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The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and Established, Agreeable to its True and Genuine Principals, Above the Reach of all Petty Tyrants ... Being a Necessary Companion for Every Lover of Religious Liberty... And an Interesting Appendix to Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. William Blackstone.

JOSHUA BABCOCK'S COPY

The Palladium of Conscience or, The Foundation of Religious Liberty Displayed, Asserted, and Established, Agreeable to its True and Genuine...

Philadelphia: Printed for the Subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1773. Second American edition. JOSHUA BABCOCK'S COPY. This work originally appeared the previous year as the fifth volume to the Blackstone's Commentaries. The first American edition appeared in 1773 though under a different title. Blackstone's work attempts to codify personal rights and... Read More

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Autographed Manuscript Order, Signed “Edward Proctor one of the Overseers of the poor” to Mr. Samuel Whitwell, requesting that he “receive Hannah Carthright into the Alms House”. Boston Tea Party, Edward Proctor.

SENT TO THE ALMSHOUSE BY A SON OF LIBERTY

Autographed Manuscript Order, Signed “Edward Proctor one of the Overseers of the poor” to Mr. Samuel Whitwell, requesting that he...

Boston: June 4, 1792. SENT TO THE ALMSHOUSE BY A SON OF LIBERTY. Between 1758 and 1800 the Boston Overseers of the Poor admitted around 7200 persons into the almshouse. Hannah Carthright would have been sent to the almshouse at the corner of Beacon and Park streets, in Boston, established... Read More

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Autograph Letter Signed, to Lewis Pintard. Elias Boudinot.

"i will send you a Cypher ..."

Autograph Letter Signed, to Lewis Pintard.

Philadelphia: Jan. 29, 1783. "i will send you a Cypher ..." A letter to his brother-in-law, Lewis Pintard, during Boudinot's term as President of the Continental Congress (November, 1782 - November 1783), during which the Treaty of Paris was concluded, whereby Britain recognized (among other things) American independence. Boudinot also... Read More

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