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Two Centuries Of American History: Highly Important Letters And Documents
25 May 2016 • New York
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Sale Number: N09488
94 lots
1. Autograph document signed ("Frans Lewis") for six barrels of coffee sent to Boston merchant Thomas Fayerweather
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 USD
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2. Autograph document signed ("Geo. Taylor"), being a payment receipt for the sale of land
Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD
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3. Printed broadside signed ("John Hancock") denouncing taxes "imposed upon the People, without their Consent."
Estimate: 100,000 – 200,000 USD
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4. Document signed in full ("Thomas Lynch Junr"), on behalf of his father, Thomas Lynch, Sr., then a South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia
Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 USD
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5. Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America … Written by an Englishman. Boston: Edes & Gill and T. & J. Fleet, 1776
Estimate: 20,000 – 25,000 USD
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6. Document signed ("John Hancock" with paraph), being "Instructions to the Commanders of Private Ships of Vessels of War, which shall have Commissions or Letters of Marque and Reprisals, authorizing them to make Captures of British Vessels and Cargoes"
Estimate: 18,000 – 25,000 USD
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7. Document signed ("John Hancock Presdt" with paraph), imploring the states to send ordnance and troops
Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 USD
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8. Letter signed ("Wm: Whipple”) regarding the reorganization of the offices of Quartermaster General and Commissary General
Estimate: 7,000 – 10,000 USD
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9. Journals of Congress, Containing the Proceedings from January 1, 1776 to January 1, 1777. Volume II. York-Town, PA: John Dunlap, 1778
Estimate: 15,000 – 25,000 USD
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10. “Circular Letter from the Congress” concerning Revolutionary War finances, in The United States Magazine: A Repository of History, Politics, and Literature. Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, November 1779
Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 USD
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11. Autograph letter signed ("John Adams") to William Churchill Houston celebrating encouraging war news, including the defeat of the Hessian commander Baron von Knyphausen at Springfield
Estimate: 30,000 – 40,000 USD
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12. Autograph document signed ("Chas Thomson"), ordering crucial reinforcements for the Siege of Yorktown
Estimate: 5,000 – 10,000 USD
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