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Auction archive: Lot number 12

AMERICAN REVOLUTION CONTINENTAL GENERALS]. SULLIVAN, John (1740-1795). Autograph letter signed ("Jno Sullivan") to the General Assembly of New Hampshire, Winter Hill, MA, 26 January 1776. 1 page, folio, upper 1 3/16 inches separated, backed . A RARE ...

Auction 24.05.2002
24 May 2002
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$10,158
Auction archive: Lot number 12

AMERICAN REVOLUTION CONTINENTAL GENERALS]. SULLIVAN, John (1740-1795). Autograph letter signed ("Jno Sullivan") to the General Assembly of New Hampshire, Winter Hill, MA, 26 January 1776. 1 page, folio, upper 1 3/16 inches separated, backed . A RARE ...

Auction 24.05.2002
24 May 2002
Estimate
US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$10,158
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN REVOLUTION CONTINENTAL GENERALS]. SULLIVAN, John (1740-1795). Autograph letter signed ("Jno Sullivan") to the General Assembly of New Hampshire, Winter Hill, MA, 26 January 1776. 1 page, folio, upper 1 3/16 inches separated, backed . A RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF JOHN SULLIVAN DATED 1776. An early war letter written by one of George Washington's most important officers. In command of a brigade beseiging Boston during the first winter of the war, Sullivan writes concerning a newly recruited New Hampshire regiment: "They relieved me much when they Informed That you had voted to advance the money for the new Regiment & that you approved of my plan for Raising it." He notes the benefit of recruiting early in the season: "all the new Troops that come in are bound to pay a Tax to the Climate by Sickness, this the present Militia have gone through & therefore will much better Endure the Severities of the next Campaigns." Sullivan concludes with confidence: "I have now no Doubt upon my mind about compleating the Regiment by the time." -- KNOX, Henry (1750-1806). Autograph letter signed ("H Knox") to Colonel Abeel, Ringwood, [NJ], 6 June 1779. 1½ pages, small 4to, integral address leaf, some staining . Knox orders Abeel to have a quantity of gunpowder in Morristown distributed to Colonel Stevens and Major Holmes. Concerning the movement of the supply wagons, Knox writes: "If Mr. Hodgeson should apply to you to know the route by which to forward...the military stores, please to direct him the same way the park marched." -- LEE, Charles (1731-1782). Autograph letter signed ("C Lee") to ROBERT MORRIS New York, 28 January 1777. 1 page, small 4to, integral address leaf. Writing as a prisoner of war after his ignominious capture at Basking Ridge on 13 December 1776, Lee attempts to arrange for the care of his finances and property and requests "if...my Servant Giuseppi is well enough you will send him, and desire him to bring the dogs with him." After his exchange in April 1778, Lee was accused of betraying the colonies while he was a prisoner. He was court-martialled and eventually dismissed from the service. -- SCHUYLER, Philip J. (1733-1804). Autograph letter signed ("Ph: Schuyler") to Captain Richard Varick, Albany, 28 March 1776. 1 p., small 4to, stained . Schuyler writes to the Captain of the 1st New York and future Lieutenant Colonel of the Commissary Department, requesting that 13 named officers dine with him. He further asks that Varick inform him "when Capt. Allen's Company of Warner's Regiment passed Tyconderoga" suggesting that he may find the information in the receipt or provision books. Together four items . (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN REVOLUTION CONTINENTAL GENERALS]. SULLIVAN, John (1740-1795). Autograph letter signed ("Jno Sullivan") to the General Assembly of New Hampshire, Winter Hill, MA, 26 January 1776. 1 page, folio, upper 1 3/16 inches separated, backed . A RARE AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF JOHN SULLIVAN DATED 1776. An early war letter written by one of George Washington's most important officers. In command of a brigade beseiging Boston during the first winter of the war, Sullivan writes concerning a newly recruited New Hampshire regiment: "They relieved me much when they Informed That you had voted to advance the money for the new Regiment & that you approved of my plan for Raising it." He notes the benefit of recruiting early in the season: "all the new Troops that come in are bound to pay a Tax to the Climate by Sickness, this the present Militia have gone through & therefore will much better Endure the Severities of the next Campaigns." Sullivan concludes with confidence: "I have now no Doubt upon my mind about compleating the Regiment by the time." -- KNOX, Henry (1750-1806). Autograph letter signed ("H Knox") to Colonel Abeel, Ringwood, [NJ], 6 June 1779. 1½ pages, small 4to, integral address leaf, some staining . Knox orders Abeel to have a quantity of gunpowder in Morristown distributed to Colonel Stevens and Major Holmes. Concerning the movement of the supply wagons, Knox writes: "If Mr. Hodgeson should apply to you to know the route by which to forward...the military stores, please to direct him the same way the park marched." -- LEE, Charles (1731-1782). Autograph letter signed ("C Lee") to ROBERT MORRIS New York, 28 January 1777. 1 page, small 4to, integral address leaf. Writing as a prisoner of war after his ignominious capture at Basking Ridge on 13 December 1776, Lee attempts to arrange for the care of his finances and property and requests "if...my Servant Giuseppi is well enough you will send him, and desire him to bring the dogs with him." After his exchange in April 1778, Lee was accused of betraying the colonies while he was a prisoner. He was court-martialled and eventually dismissed from the service. -- SCHUYLER, Philip J. (1733-1804). Autograph letter signed ("Ph: Schuyler") to Captain Richard Varick, Albany, 28 March 1776. 1 p., small 4to, stained . Schuyler writes to the Captain of the 1st New York and future Lieutenant Colonel of the Commissary Department, requesting that 13 named officers dine with him. He further asks that Varick inform him "when Capt. Allen's Company of Warner's Regiment passed Tyconderoga" suggesting that he may find the information in the receipt or provision books. Together four items . (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2002
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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