Auction Date:2013 Nov 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ADS, signed “Will.m Hooper,” one page, 7.5 x 12, no date. Legal document reads, in part: “The Jurors for Our Sovereign Lord the King upon their Oath Present that Cornelius Rowe, late of the County of Rowan Labourer, not having the fear of God before his Eyes but being moved and seduced by the Instigation of the Devil on the Twenty fifth day of December in the Tenth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third of Great Britain…at the County aforesaid in and upon one William Hooker…did make an Assault…then and there Charged with Gun-powder and a Certain Wooden ramrod of a Gun which Rifle Gun he the said Cornelius in his right hand…feloniously Willfully and of his Malice a forethought did shoot and discharge and…by force of the Gun powder aforesaid shot discharged and sent forth the aforesaid William Hooker in and upon the pit of the Stomach…did penetrate and wound, giving to the said William Hooker…one mortal wound of the depth of eight Inches and of the breadth of half an Inch of which said Mortal wound the said William Hooker then and there instantly died, and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say that the said Cornelius Rowe, the said William Hooker in manner and form aforesaid feloniously willfully and of his Malice afterthought did kill and Murder against the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity.” Nicely double-cloth-matted and framed with a portrait of Hooper to an overall size of 17 x 29.5. In fine condition, with intersecting folds. An impressive document boasting over 500 words in Hooper’s hand. In his 1995 reference History Comes to Life, Kenneth Rendell places Hooper’s autograph material into the ‘very rare’ category among the Signers.
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