Sale 329

Autographs and Historical Documents


Early American Historical Documents
 
 
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Lot 148
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1675, Document Signed, one page, 8½ x 12, parchment, March 8, 1675. Deed for a saw mill and land adjoining the common in Woburne, Middlesex County, from Allen Conuars and his wife, Elizabeth (who has signed with her mark, "E"), to Robert Eames; intact wax seals of grantors' finger or thumb prints with ring impressions; countersigned by witnesses William Johnson and Jarvis South. Typical light foxing and some damage to integral blank leaf, Fine for a document of this vintage.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 149
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1696, Document Signed one page on parchment, 8¼ x 12, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 1, 1696. Articles of Agreement between Jeremiah Webb as one party and John Webb and William Wait as the other party relating to the leasing of farm property and equipment between two early settlers in the Northampton area, a province of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Considerable toning, especially along natural folds, and expected edge flaws but still quite legible with remnants of red wax seals next to parties' signatures.
Estimate 500 - 750

A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF WRITTEN COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATIONS IN EARLY COLONIAL TIMES.

Signatories of the document are as follows: Joseph Hawley (1603-1690), of Derbyshire, England, the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629; settled at Stratford, Connecticut in 1650, becoming the town's first town clerk, and a shipbuilder; General John Richmond Webb (1667-1724), an English military leader and Member of Parliament; Jeremiah Webb; Samuel Clay; Joseph Atherton; and the two interested parties Jeremiah Webb and William Wait, who signs with his mark, "WW".

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Lot 150
Civil War Slave Trade, Late war ALS, one page, 6½ x 4¼ no place, June 14, 1864, from Thomas C. McLelland to slave dealer N. B. Hill in Richmond, in full: "I send over a boy by Mr. William T. Richerson to you to sell to the best advantage you can. I wish you would pay him [Richerson] ($500) five hundred dollars and deduct that amount from his sale…"; minor fading of ink; Fine.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 151
 
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS & AMERICANA, Assortment of 25+ documents and letters from the late 17th to the early 19th century. Includes a large parchment Indenture from 1700 with British tax stamps affixed, a small late-18th century correspondence from the Nesmith family of New Hampshire and much more. An interesting and diverse grouping, several with transcriptions.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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