Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
Revolutionary War-dated partly-printed DS, signed “Go: Washington,” one page, both sides, 8.25 x 10.75, June 9, 1783. Washington discharges Anthony Bremer from military service. In full: “These are to Certify that the Bearer hereof Anthony Bremer Fifer, in the 2nd New York Artillery Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from the 10th Semtember [sic] 1779—the present period, and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby Discharged from the American Army.” Signed in the middle of the document in ink by Washington and countersigned by John Trumbull as well as Adjutant James Bradford. Reverse bears several endorsements and dockets, including an endorsement signed by Bremer. Document is affixed by its left edge to a 10 x 12.75 sheet. In good to very good condition, with repairs on reverse to intersecting folds, one fold passing through a single letter of signature, a few trivial areas of paper loss, slight show-through from endorsements on reverse, and scattered toning and foxing.
In 1781, Anthony Bremer, a small-statured, 18-year-old farmer from New York, was reported to have deserted his post as Fifer in the Continental Army during their march from Trenton to the Head of Elk. With an extensive list of reasons to desert—poor or non-existent food and clothing, infrequent paydays, crowded unsanitary life in camp, rampant disease—an average of 20-25 percent of soldiers did just that. Though a crime punishable by death, Washington was aware of all the contributing factors and exercised a certain reasonable leniency in their regards. Four times during the war he offered a general pardon to deserters who returned to service, which is presumably what Anthony Bremer did. After deserting and returning, “having faithfully served the United States,” he was officially discharged by Washington in 1783.
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