Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(KING WILLIAM'S WAR)Document issued by the Massachusetts (Colony) Council, "At a Council sitting in Boston, Friday, October 30th, 1691" Manuscript document, signed by James Addington "Jsa: Addington Secry") as secretary to the Council, one page (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 190 x 140 mm), neatly written in a secretarial hand, in dark brown ink. Matted, framed, and glazed. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. Provisioning English troops in King William's War (1689-1697), the first of what came to be known in America as the "French and Indian Wars." Hostilities began in 1690, when in the course of a few months Schenectady, New York, was burned by the French and Indians. The Sokoki, Abenaki, Penobscot, Kennebec, Androscogg, and Saco tribes were already harassing New England towns in the 1680s due to land disputes. In the present document, the Council orders Captain Stephen Sewell (1657-1725, of Newbury, Massachusetts) and William Hirst of Essex county, Timothy Thornton and William Coleman of Suffolk County, and Jonathan Remington and Samuel Gookin of Middlesex to visit neighboring towns to raise provisions "for the support of such Souldiers as shall be Raised for their Majesties Service in the defence of the Country against the Ffrench and Indian Enemy; and that they be ffurnished with Bills of Publick Credit to procure the same." With the great scarcity of material relating to the Pequot and King Philip's wars, it would be difficult to find an earlier military manuscript relating to British America. PROVENANCE:William Guthman (Sotheby's New York, 1 December 2005, lot 164)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(KING WILLIAM'S WAR)Document issued by the Massachusetts (Colony) Council, "At a Council sitting in Boston, Friday, October 30th, 1691" Manuscript document, signed by James Addington "Jsa: Addington Secry") as secretary to the Council, one page (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 190 x 140 mm), neatly written in a secretarial hand, in dark brown ink. Matted, framed, and glazed. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. Provisioning English troops in King William's War (1689-1697), the first of what came to be known in America as the "French and Indian Wars." Hostilities began in 1690, when in the course of a few months Schenectady, New York, was burned by the French and Indians. The Sokoki, Abenaki, Penobscot, Kennebec, Androscogg, and Saco tribes were already harassing New England towns in the 1680s due to land disputes. In the present document, the Council orders Captain Stephen Sewell (1657-1725, of Newbury, Massachusetts) and William Hirst of Essex county, Timothy Thornton and William Coleman of Suffolk County, and Jonathan Remington and Samuel Gookin of Middlesex to visit neighboring towns to raise provisions "for the support of such Souldiers as shall be Raised for their Majesties Service in the defence of the Country against the Ffrench and Indian Enemy; and that they be ffurnished with Bills of Publick Credit to procure the same." With the great scarcity of material relating to the Pequot and King Philip's wars, it would be difficult to find an earlier military manuscript relating to British America. PROVENANCE:William Guthman (Sotheby's New York, 1 December 2005, lot 164)Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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