Lot 32
1772 Letter From John Codman To Phillip Schuyler. A one-page folio letter from John Codman, a Boston merchant and member of the Massachusetts Senate, to Col. Phillip Schuyler, who became Major General in the Continental Army and one of the first two U.S. senators from New York, New Brunswick, November 8, 1772, asking for help in a business affair. In part, "…my Affair with Ysaham is rather desperate; were he put into Goal, I do no believe he has a friend that would take him out as they have suffered by him already….I am sorry to hear that some Rascals have been destroying the Timber on some of my Lotts in Saratoga. Pray is there no way of coming at these Fellows or of preventing it…for the Soil is good for little afterwards…." Fine condition. Address has postal markings.
Estimated Value $600 - 800.
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