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Colonial Americana

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1001		1698 Account of the Province of Pennsylvania - 1848 Copy. Rare 1848 copy of Gabriel Thomas' 1698 geographical account of the province and country of Pennsylvania and West New Jersey, 8" x 5", 55pp. Covers the Pennsylvania section of Thomas' 1698 edition only, and includes a facsimile 1698 map of Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey. Marble boards and three-quarter morocco leather corners; spine professionally restored with gold-stamped title and gold remarque decorations. The original 1698 edition would sell in the $30,000.00 to $40,000.00 range. (Sabin number 95396). Estimated Value $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1002		1775 Petition By An Abused Wife. A 3pp manuscript document presented to the Connecticut General Assembly held at New Haven on Mar. 2, 1775, in which Hannah Pardy, married to Enos Pardy since May 1752, claims that he has been an abusive husband and father, "a Man of a Revengeful Implacable Temper" who has beaten her many times, causing her "to fly to her Neighbours for protection & Deliverance" and to live "in a perpetual fear." She requests that Enos be allowed to keep 25 acres of an estate valued at £300 that Hannah has inherited, and that she be allowed to keep the rest for herself. Numerous contemporary corrections, damp stain down right margin and some fold splits; still, boldly penned and extremely interesting. Estimated Value $175 - 225. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $106
Lot 1003		[Columbus, Christopher]. Engraving titled "Christophe Colomb" with aquatint by Didal after Chaalle, depicting Columbus returning to Spain and being greeted by admirers after his third voyage to the New World. 23¾" x 19", matted to an overall size of 30½" x 26", [France?], c. 1790. No record of artist or engraver, but paper is watermarked 1788 and the engraving style and subject matter are typical of French historical prints at the close of the 18th century. Fine; some surface soiling and a diagonal crease along left side. Estimated Value $300 - 500. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1004		Connecticut and Pennsylvania Documents, 1786 and 1798. Pay order signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. as a member of the Connecticut Pay-Table Committee, 5" x 6", 1780 Apr. 24, ordering treasurer John Lawrence to pay himself seven shillings and ten Pence "out of the Taxes appropriated for the Payment of the Civil List…." With a 1798 Pennsylvania warrant, 3¾" x 12¾", ordering the sheriff of Green County to take Joseph Tervell into custody and take him before the judges at Waynesburgh to answer "Henry Miller Supervisor of the Revenue for the District of Pennsylvania" for money owed. Both fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1005		Hall, David - Original Partnershp Contracts For the Most Important Printing Establishment in the Colonies (1714-1772) Printer and bookseller. In 1743 Benjamin Franklin hired Hall, who had worked for Franklin's friend, William Strahan, in London, to assist him in his printing house. In 1748 Franklin took Hall into partnership and the enterprise became Franklin & Hall; on February 1, 1766, Franklin sold his interest in the most important printing business in the colonies to David Hall. Hall immediately took William Sellers, who had been his journeyman into the printing house, as a partner, creating the new firm of Hall & Sellers. In addition to printing all the paper money for the colony of Pennsylvania, Hall & Sellers continued the contract with the state that Franklin had negotiated, which included printing all pamphlets and official documents, and continuing Poor Richard's Almanac, started by Franklin in 1732. Two original Manuscript Documents Signed; the first is 2pp (recto/verso), 14½" x 9¼", Philadelphia, 1766 Feb. 3, two days after Hall purchased the printing house from Benjamin Franklin, and is signed by Hall with a red wax seal; the second is 1p, 14½" x 9¼", Philadelphia, 1771 Jan. 1, signed with a small paper seal, and extends the partnership with Sellers for another five years. Some slight ink erosion and chipping; affecting a couple of words in the text; some professional strenthening at folds. The first document reads in part: "…Articles of Agreement indented and made the Third day of February in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-six between David Hall of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, Printer, of the one Part, and William Sellers, of the same Place, Printer, of the other Part. Whereas the said David Hall and William Sellers have determined to enter into a Copartnership, for the carrying on of the Business of Printing in the City of Philadelphia aforesaid; it is therefore covenanted, granted, and agreed by and between the said Parties to these Present, and the said David Hall and William Sellers do each of them covenant, and mutually agree, each with the other of them in Manner following…that they, the said David Hall and William Sellers, shall be partners in carrying on the Trade and Business of Printing in Philadelphia…for and during the Term of Five Years….That all charges of Types, Paper, Ink, Balls, Tympans, Wool, Oil, and other Things necessary to Printing; together with the charge of all common and necessary Repairs of the Press, and its Appurtenances; and also the charge of Rent…shall be divided into two equal Parts…That all Money received, or to be received, for Printing, or for anything done, or to be done, relating to the Business of Printing aforesaid, by the said David Hall, and William Sellers, either as Gratuity, Premium, Reward, or Salary from the Government or from others, shall be divided into two equal parts…." The second document states that "…David Hall and William Sellers have agreed to continue the Copartnership aforesaid for and during the further Term of five Years…." Two historic documents. Estimated Value $15,000 - 20,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1006		Massachusetts Currency - May 25, 1775 Soldier Note. Because of restrictions imposed by the British Parliament, no paper money was printed in Massachusetts after 1750 until this note was issued on May 25, 1775. After the opening salvos of the Revolution took place at Lexington and Concord on April 19th, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts authorized an emission of £25, 998 in paper currency to use as advance pay for recruits; the currency was called "Soldier Notes" and was the first emission printed by Paul Revere. This ten shilling note is signed by Henry Gardner, the Massachusetts Receiver General, and countersigned by Abraham Fuller ("Abr. Fuller"). It is indented with an acanthus leaf design on the left, under which is engraved "[Americ]an Paper". At top left "Colony of the Massachusetts Bay" is engraved; at top center is the handwritten serial number "4170", under which is the day and issue in white numbers on a black background; the year of redemption, 1776, also appears in white on a black background. Cancelled with x's over Gardner's signature. Only 4,333 examples of this note were printed. Size is 3¼" x 6½" (77 x 172 mm). Light toning and foxing; one archival fold repair on verso. A fine example. Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1007		Morris, Lewis (1671-1746) Chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey; grandfather of Signer Lewis Morris. DS("L:Morris") on the verso, 1695 Oct. 4. Being a deed for property on the Raritan River in the Province of East Jersey. Other signatures include John Barclay, George Cumin, James Dundae, and John Hebron. Uneven toning; several small holes, splits and fold repairs; still largely legible with a bold signature by Morris. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $120
Lot 1008		Original 1702 Pennsylvania Land Grant True Copy. Manuscript Document, 10½" x 7½", datelined "Philadelphia 23 12 mo. 1702," being a true copy of a proprietary commissioner's land grant of 200 acres to a certain Hugh Roberts, made according to a general survey by David Powel, Surveyor. Signed with proxy signatures of the Commissioners of Property: Edward Shippen, Theo. Story, and James Logan. Logan was the personal secretary of William Penn. Very good; edge faults and small holes at folds. A nice early Colonial document. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1009		Penn, William (1644-1718) English Quaker, Proprietor and Colonial Governor of Pennsylvania. DS ("Wm Penn"), 1p, 9¾" x 7¼", Philadelphia, 1683 July 3 (the 3d of ye 5th mo.). During his first visit to Pennsylvania, William Penn appoints John Goodson as coroner of Philadelphia. Addressed "To John Goodson Chirur[ge]on in Philadelphia, the documents reads: "William Penn Proprietary & Governr of ye Province of Pennsilvania & the Territories thereunto B[e]longing. Reposing confidence in thy sobriety & Integrity, I do authorise & appoint Thee to be Coroner of ye county of Philadelphia to inspect ye Bodies of those yt come untimely to their Deaths, & impannel Juries upon the same, & do what to ye Office of a Coroner belonges, & to receive ye Fees due for ye same, as by Law directed: Hereby requiring all Persons to give thee ye Respect due to thy Office…." John Goodson (?-1727) was the first English physician to arrive in Pennsylvania under Penn's charter. Goodson was appointed "chirurgeon" to the Free Society of Traders and resided in Pennsylvania prior to Penn's first visit. Goodson was made a judge in 1685, and in November of 1694, Penn appointed him Deputy-Governor to Governor Markham; he was also an Elder of the Quakers. The document is age-toned, with one stain in the upper portion of the first letter, a couple of small archival tape repairs on verso, and a few small edge chips, slightly affecting one letter of the text. Goodson's docket ("My Commission from Governor Penn To be Coroner") has been affixed to the verso (integral leaf not present); verso also has a penciled notation, "B.T. Mendenhall to J.T. Watson Oct. 1855." The document is boldly penned with a large, bold signature by Penn. Early land grants from Philadelphia are not uncommon, but documents this unusual and early are very rare. This is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, surviving medical appointments in America and is the first appointment of a coroner in the colony of Pennsylvania. Estimated Value $18,000 - 22,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $16,100
Lot 1010		The Scots Magazine, Scotland, Feb. 1758 - Black Hole of Calcutta. British monthly news magazine containing a detailed account by English East India Company employee John Z. Holwell of the supposed horrors that took place in June 1756 at the "Black Hole," a small dungeon in Calcutta where Holwell and 145 other British and Anglo-Indians were held by troops of the Newab of Bengal in appalling conditions that resulted in the deaths of 123 of the prisoners. Very good condition. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1011		View of the Capitol Building, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Original graphite and charcoal drawing of the capitol building, amidst Colonial life, as it appeared in the early 18th century. Unsigned, but determined to be by artist Paul W. Arnt, c. 1942, identified through a drawing used by Americana Prints, Inc. as the basis for a print in 1942. 19" x 25", matted to an overall size of 22½" x 28". The Georgian style structure was rebuilt in 1934, recreating the original 1705 design which was destroyed by fire in the mid-18th century. Fine. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1012		Wolcott, Oliver, Jr (1760-1833) Secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1795-1800); he succeeded Alexander Hamilton and furthered Hamilton's economic agenda. Manuscript Document Signed ("Oliv: Wolcott") as Secretary of the Treasury, 4½pp (recto/verso) with integral leaf, 16" x 10", 1798 Nov. 16. Fine except for paper loss in fold below Wolcott's signature, affecting only part of the date. Written in a clerical hand, the document is headed: "The Secretary of the Treasury in pursuance of the request contained in the Letter from the Secretary of War dated the 14th…submits the following view of the Finances of the United States." This manuscript, evidently prepared for Secretary of War James McHenry, reviews in detail the revenue and the expenditures of the federal government. Revenue, estimated at $8,011,897.84, was obtained from duties on imports and tonnage, domestic distilled spirits, stills, licenses for the retail sale of foreign spirits and wines, refined sugar, and carriages, as well as stamp duties, "which began to be collected on the 1st of July 1798," revenue from the post office, "Dividends on Capital Stock of the Bank of the United States," etc. Expenditures expected to be incurred include "Mint Establishment…Treaties with Barbary Power…Indian Expences," as well as expenses for Congress, diplomatic expenses, military pensions, lighthouses (not including money for erecting new ones), and appropriations for the foreign debt in 1799; miscellaneous expenses include "charges for the protection of American seamen." reflecting the undeclared war (Quasi-War) which was fought entirely on the sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800. The manuscript explains, that the numbers given are based on finances from previous years and refer to permanent revenue and permanent expenditures "independent of the military and naval establishment," and that to "possess a full view of othe resources of the Treasury, the following provisions made by Acts passed during the last session of Congress ought however to be considered," namely, the direct tax passed in July 1798 (the first federal property tax in the U.S.) and the authorization of a permanent loan of $5 million passed the same month. Wolcott states that further monies could be available by seeking an additional loan against the tax, but not at as favorable a rate, due to the "high value of money at the present time." Probably referring to Jay's Treaty, he adds, "But from the Direct Tax and from Loans there ought to be opposed certain expenditures which will be required to fulfill the stipulations of the Treaty with Great Britain.…" Wolcott concludes by referring McHenry to a May 1, 1798 report presented to the Ways and Means Committ of the House. The importance of public credit to the U.S. economic agenda is reflected in this document, which is incredibly brief by today's standards. Estimated Value $10,000 - 15,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold