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Auction archive: Lot number 8

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, FLOWER FAMILY PAPERS.] An extensive archive relating to the military service, personal and business affairs of Samuel Flower of West Springfield, Mass., and several generations of his descendants, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT SOLDIERS' ...

Auction 19.05.2000
19 May 2000
Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
US$7,050
Auction archive: Lot number 8

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, FLOWER FAMILY PAPERS.] An extensive archive relating to the military service, personal and business affairs of Samuel Flower of West Springfield, Mass., and several generations of his descendants, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT SOLDIERS' ...

Auction 19.05.2000
19 May 2000
Estimate
US$7,000 - US$10,000
Price realised:
US$7,050
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, FLOWER FAMILY PAPERS.] An extensive archive relating to the military service, personal and business affairs of Samuel Flower of West Springfield, Mass., and several generations of his descendants, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT SOLDIERS' LETTERS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812, Springfield, Mass., Ticonderoga, Albany, etc., 1771-1856 (37 dated prior to 1800). Comprising approximately 120 pieces: letters, documents, several printed broadsides, pamphlets and one tintype photograph, housed in protective sleeves in a large binder , in generally excellent condition. A MASSACHUSETTS OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTION. An extensive, highly interesting family archive, of which the most significant portions relate to Flower's service in the Massachusetts Militia. A few examples: in a document dated 1774, three West Springfield men, noting "distresses & calamities which so glaringly threaten this Country" contract to "learn the use of Fire Arms." On 23 November 1774, a document records the meeting of the "Feeding Hills Militia Company" and its designation of Flower as Lieutenant. On 12 May 1775, the company was away when Flower's brother wrote, expressing regret that "any of our Men did dissert," for "it is hurting the Cause." An undated sheet lists members of the company, with equipment lacking: "Benjamin Bennett, no ball cartridges, Henry Stebbins, no gun or knapsack," etc. A letter from a junior officer to Flower, now a Captain, dated "On Board the Galle[y] Trumble [Trumbull; one of Arnold's Lake Champlain gunboats], January 23rd 1777," describing a "long and tedious march" from Albany. The same individual wrote Flower again in February from Fort Ticonderoga. In one of several letters to his wife while campaigning (Albany, July 1777), Flower asks for articles of clothing, and adds "I am this day going to march to Fort Edward"). G. Granger writes Flower from Camp at West Point on 2 August 1779, notes the American victory at Stony Point, and reports the capture of a notorious deserter at Albany. From Peekskill on 16 November 1777, his enlistment about to expire, Flower writes his wife that "I expect to return home...and enjoy the peacefull Situations of life..." The archive includes papers relating to Flower's discharge, an unusual Muster Roll of a Company "Rais'd to support Government" in June 1782 in West Springfield, a pamphlet on the ratification of the Constitution (Evans 21465; Howes S-640), an ADS of John Avery 1799, printed lists of delegates to the Mass. House of Representatives, 1805 & 1806, A Catalogue of Yale College Library , 1808, sewn, uncut; several documents relating to the War of 1812, a handwritten "Confession of Faith" and register of the Congregational Church, Feeding Hills, West Springfield, 1819-1852, etc. A detailed listing available.

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
19 May 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AMERICAN REVOLUTION, FLOWER FAMILY PAPERS.] An extensive archive relating to the military service, personal and business affairs of Samuel Flower of West Springfield, Mass., and several generations of his descendants, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT SOLDIERS' LETTERS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE WAR OF 1812, Springfield, Mass., Ticonderoga, Albany, etc., 1771-1856 (37 dated prior to 1800). Comprising approximately 120 pieces: letters, documents, several printed broadsides, pamphlets and one tintype photograph, housed in protective sleeves in a large binder , in generally excellent condition. A MASSACHUSETTS OFFICER IN THE REVOLUTION. An extensive, highly interesting family archive, of which the most significant portions relate to Flower's service in the Massachusetts Militia. A few examples: in a document dated 1774, three West Springfield men, noting "distresses & calamities which so glaringly threaten this Country" contract to "learn the use of Fire Arms." On 23 November 1774, a document records the meeting of the "Feeding Hills Militia Company" and its designation of Flower as Lieutenant. On 12 May 1775, the company was away when Flower's brother wrote, expressing regret that "any of our Men did dissert," for "it is hurting the Cause." An undated sheet lists members of the company, with equipment lacking: "Benjamin Bennett, no ball cartridges, Henry Stebbins, no gun or knapsack," etc. A letter from a junior officer to Flower, now a Captain, dated "On Board the Galle[y] Trumble [Trumbull; one of Arnold's Lake Champlain gunboats], January 23rd 1777," describing a "long and tedious march" from Albany. The same individual wrote Flower again in February from Fort Ticonderoga. In one of several letters to his wife while campaigning (Albany, July 1777), Flower asks for articles of clothing, and adds "I am this day going to march to Fort Edward"). G. Granger writes Flower from Camp at West Point on 2 August 1779, notes the American victory at Stony Point, and reports the capture of a notorious deserter at Albany. From Peekskill on 16 November 1777, his enlistment about to expire, Flower writes his wife that "I expect to return home...and enjoy the peacefull Situations of life..." The archive includes papers relating to Flower's discharge, an unusual Muster Roll of a Company "Rais'd to support Government" in June 1782 in West Springfield, a pamphlet on the ratification of the Constitution (Evans 21465; Howes S-640), an ADS of John Avery 1799, printed lists of delegates to the Mass. House of Representatives, 1805 & 1806, A Catalogue of Yale College Library , 1808, sewn, uncut; several documents relating to the War of 1812, a handwritten "Confession of Faith" and register of the Congregational Church, Feeding Hills, West Springfield, 1819-1852, etc. A detailed listing available.

Auction archive: Lot number 8
Auction:
Datum:
19 May 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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