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To auction, sell or consign your Stephen Decatur autograph, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).
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Nate D. Sanders Auctions sold a Stephen Decatur autograph letter. Please see below for details:
Stephen Decatur Autograph Letter of Introduction Signed
Stephen Decatur autograph letter signed. Letter of introduction to Secretary of the Navy Benjamin W. Crowninshield datelined Washington, 28 May 1818 reads in part: ”…The bearer Edwart Brandt a young gentleman…connected from Baltimore has requested an introduction to you, & I feel great pleasure in affording it to him, he is an applicant for the appointment of midshipman, which if he cannot obtain at this time, he is anxious to have his name registered as an applicant.” Accompanied by a 6.5” x 9” engraved portrait of Decatur. Single-page letter measures 7.75” x 10”. Notations to verso, in a second hand (possibly Crowninshield’s) are apparently in reference to the introduced: ”15 years old / appears modest & unassuming, rather promising intelligent & active / May 22d 1818.” Small spot of staining and buckling to lower edge, else near fine. Sold for $938.
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Very Rare Revolutionary War 1780 Muster Payroll — With Seven Dorchester Company Minutemen Listed
Scarce Revolutionary War military payroll, dated 10 April 1780, with seven Dorchester company minutemen (denoted by an ”M”) listed. Here, Captain Lemuel Clapp enters his payroll for soldiers who served with him under Major Nathan Heath’s detachment, which patrolled South Boston and Dorchester Heights. Clapp was a Dorchester Patriot who invited George Washington’s troops to camp on his estate during the Siege of Boston. Muster lists names of soldiers, time of enlistment and pay owed. Document measures 16” x 12.5” with folds and toning throughout. Overall very good condition. Sold for $1,969.
Autograph letter signed by Revolutionary War hero Francis Barber, written during the Sullivan expedition to his wife on 20 August 1779. The Sullivan expedition was a critical Revolutionary War campaign in which American forces devastated British troops and American Indian tribes. Barber participated in this campaign, later achieving the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army until he was killed by a falling tree on his way to a dinner with George Washington. 4pp. letter on two sheets, sent from Fort Sullivan in Tioga, NY reads in part, ”…A few minutes ago we received intelligence from General Clinton. He is only twenty miles from us, his army in health, without having received the least opposition from an enemy. He will join this army tomorrow, and the next day our united force will commence a rapid movement against the five nations. Our operations will be attended with much more fatigue than danger. We set out from the post with a considerable train of artillery and at least a dozen heavy four horse wagons through a wilderness of Swamps & mountains, where at best we shall only find an Indian path. This will constitute our fatigue. I imagine this will be the last opportunity of your hearing from me, until the army returns to the inhabited country. What part, or when that will be is uncertain. I believe about a month hence…” Barber signs ”F. Barber” to second sheet of letter, which has original red wax seal and address panel to verso. Included is an additional document from 15 April 1780, with content related to the parceling out of military supplies, as well as an engraving of Barber. Letter measures 8” x 13.25”. Image measures 8.5” x 12”. Additional letter measures 9.5” x 16”. Folds, staining, toning and chipping to letter, as expected from a document carried in the field during the Revolutionary War. Sold for $1,000.
To auction, sell or consign your Stephen Decatur autograph, please email your description and photos to [email protected] of Nate D. Sanders Auctions (http://www.NateDSanders.com).