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[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

Windsor: Printed by George Hough and Alden Spooner, Printers to the General Assembly of Said State, 1787. Quarto. 171, [1 blank] pp [pp 101-104 misnumbered 102-105, as issued]. Endpapers are pale blue. Minor wear, Very Good plus in original sheep, with ribbed spine. Ownership signature of George M. Powers [1861-1938] of Morrisville, Vermont, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of… Read more about this item

Annapolis, 1789. Eleven pages, 6" x 7-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript. Signed at the end, "Your friend, William Craik." The Letter is unaddressed, but its salutation appears to be, "Dear Wat." Some spotting and ink bleeding, but text legible, one leaf with a tear costing about four words. Good+. In transcribing portions of the Letter below, I have created… Read more about this item

Austin, 1843. Single leaf, entirely in ink manuscript, 7-5/8" x 12-3/4." Signed in ink by Edwin Waller, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence; Andrew Jackson Bell, Texas legislator, Sheriff of Austin County, and large landowner; John York, Indian fighter and soldier in the Texas Revolution; William Pettus, active in the Texas Revolution, large landowner, and participant in… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

Single leaf, 7-7/8" x 9-5/8," Old folds, entirely in Wool's hand in neat ink manuscript. Signed at the end, with a flourish, John E. Wool. Very Good. Wool writes that he "has recently been informed that you are about, or have already agreed, to sell your house and lot, on which I presume I have a mortgage, to… Read more about this item

Single leaf, entirely in ink manuscript on lined paper. Girard's name and rank written on the otherwise blank verso. Old horizontal folds, Very Good. Admiral Bell, born in North Carolina, remained loyal to the Union, and was appointed fleet captain of the West Gulf Squadron under Admiral Farragut. Bell raised the American flag above the Custom House upon… Read more about this item

Platte City, 1861. Folio leaf, folded to [4] pp. Each page 7-3/4" x 9-3/4." Final leaf blank. Entirely in neat ink manuscript and signed with a flourish at the end of the letter. Very Good. [Words in capital letters are underlined in the original.] Find-a-Grave describes the author as follows: "Algernon Tebbs was a successful lawyer in Leesburg,… Read more about this item

Washington: Navy Department. Bureau of Engraving and Recruiting, 1863. Leaf folded to [4] pages, each page 5-1/8" x 8-3/8." On "Navy Department, Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting" letterhead. Foote's Letter fills the first three pages, final page blank. Signed "A.H. Foote" at the bottom of page [3]. Very Good. Rear Admiral Foote describes his entire military career, with… Read more about this item

Taunton, 1790. Entirely in ink manuscript, 7-5/8" x 9-3/4." Tear from opening at seal in blank left margin. Chip at lower left corner, just touching the "B" in Goodwin's title. Very Good. David L. Barnes [1760-1812], a lawyer in Taunton when he wrote this letter, moved to Providence in 1793, became United States Attorney for Rhode Island, and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

Amesbury MA, 1890. Card stock, oblong 5-3/8" x 2-7/8." "I am truly thy friend, John G. Whittier, Amesbury, 2nd Mo m15, 1890". Very Good.

np, nd. Card stock, oblong 5-1/4" x 2-7/8." Fine. "During the American Civil War he upheld the cause of the North and opposed slavery, and his sermon on the death of Abraham Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. His sermon at Harvard's commemoration of the Civil War dead in 1865 likewise attracted attention… Read more about this item

[Bedford PA, 1780. Manuscript indictment, signed by Sergeant as Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and Catharine David as complainant. Old folds, foxed along folds, some splits affecting only a couple of letters. Docketed on verso, "October Session 1780. Pennsylvania v. John W. Gaughey | Assault & Battery. Defdt. being arraigned pleads guilty." Good. Sergeant represented New Jersey in the… Read more about this item

[np, nd]. Signature and color portrait, mounted on a dark card 5" x 7." Very Good. Daniel Brodhead [1736-1809] was a deputy surveyor for Pennsylvania before serving in the Continental Army from 1776-1783 and spending the infamous winter at Valley Forge. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment at the start of the War, and… Read more about this item

Barbados, 1788. Folio sheet, folded to [4] pp, each page 7-1/2" x 9-3/8." Entirely in ink manuscript and signed "D. Parry" at the bottom of page [3]. Docketed on page [4]. Split along spine; several fold splits with archival repairs. All text preserved nicely. Good+. Governor Parry, differing with Barbados's powerful planter class, writes regretfully that the religious… Read more about this item

Folio leaf, entirely in ink manuscript, folded to [4] pp. Each page 8" x 10-1/2." Folded for mailing, addressed on final page to Case in Lowell, Massachusetts. Red seal present. Very Good. Eliphalet Case was a Universalist minister, postmaster of Lowell, and editor of the Lowell [MA] Advertiser. According to the Lowell Historical Society, which houses his papers,… Read more about this item