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April 27, 1775 Bunker Hill Martyr Nathan Blood Autograph Document Signed

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April 27, 1775 Bunker Hill Martyr Nathan Blood Autograph Document Signed
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Bunker Hill Martyr Nathan Blood Orders Wooden Bottles for the Patriot Army Just Days after Lexington & Concord
(BUNKER HILL). Signed, “Nathan Blood Quartermr” is among those who died June 17, 1775.
April 27, 1775-Dated Revolutionary War, Autograph Document Signed, “Nathan Blood Quartermr,” 1 page, no place, measuring 2” x 4”, Very Fine. Boldly signed in deep brown ink on clean period laid paper, minor fold and pencil notations, Fine. On the verso of this page Commissary General John Pigeon writes, in full: “April 25th, 1775 to Comd Davis / deliver to Capt. Reuben Dow six pots & twelve Dishes & Twenty wooden bottles / John Pigeon (Com:y Genl)” Docket, located below Nathan Blood’s signature is in an unknown hand, and reads, in full: “Order from Com;y Genl: & Recd. from Nathan Blood 27th April”.

Nathan Blood died at the Battle of Bunker Hill fought on June 17, 1775, just over a month after writing this Document. Tipped to a larger page, measuring 6.75” x 10.5”, showing an image of the Bunker Hill Memorial listing Nathan Blood among those who died June 17, 1775. He was in Captain Reuben Dow’s Company, William Prescott’s Regiment, which suffered heavy losses that day. Exceedingly rare and the first example of Nathan Blood’s signature we have ever encountered and offered.


The Battle of Bunker Hill, fought on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, was an attempt to force the British from Boston. The American troops fortified the hill secretly one night and were commanded by Israel Putnam and Joseph Warren.

The first and second British attacks were repulsed but the third succeeded when the Americans ran out of powder and ammunition. In an attempt to save bullets, Putnam ordered "Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes". Warren was killed and although the Americans lost, they believed that their resolve in staving off the British was a moral victory.