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Hall, Lyman - Extremely Rare ALS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD
Hall, Lyman - Extremely Rare ALS
<Our item number 119279><B>Hall, Lyman.</B> &#40;1724-1890&#41; American Revolutionary leader, member of the Continental Congress, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Governor of Georgia. Extremely rare ALS &#40;&#34;L. Hall&#34;&#41;, as Governor of Georgia, 1p, 13½&#34; x 8¼&#34;, Georgia, 1786 April 7. Addressed on the verso, in Hall&#39;s hand, to To Capt. Elmer Street in Wallingford [Connecticut]; the letter was hand delivered by Capt. Atwater. Hall writes to Capt. Street about his agricultural crop:<BR><BR>&#34;<I>D</I>[ea]<I>r Sir, Reccd. the peach stones, grafts & beans safe--the grafts dead, the peach stones so…hard, I suspect they will not come up--none as yet. I think the only way will be to plant them there as the peach is Eat, plant the Stone in a little Box of Earth, standing in the Garden, & in the fall or Winter Transport that Box. We thank you for your trouble. The Butter-nuts had like to have forgot, we have planted a Number of them--hope they may come up.<BR><BR><I> Respect.g the Rice Crop, I can now give you pretty Exact Information, with what we have Reserved for seed & what we have beat out, the whole last years Crop, amounts to two Hundred Barrells…& still as much push.d for Money as ever--& for Years shall be if I live unless I can sell my plantat.n to the southw.d. Debt I hate, but blessed be God we have plenty of food & Rayment with which I am content. I have but a poor Opinion of this World.<BR><BR>We are brave in Health, Except the Smallpox, wh.h has made an Attack upon. Wish all Health to you & Sara & all the Family. I have not by this Opp.y Time to write another Letter. Give my Love to all in which Mrs. Hall & son Join. Yr. dr. L. Hall</I>.&#34;<BR><BR>Fine. Written on laid paper, watermarked with a seated Britannia inside a double circle with a crown bearing a Maltese cross above; Britannia has a shield at her feet, a trident in one hand and a torch &#40;?&#41; in the other. The seal tear has been closed, affecting nothing. Hall is one of a small group of Signers whose letters and/or documents rarely come on the market. Only Button Gwinnett and Thomas Lynch, Jr. are rarer. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;10,000-15,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 119279<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/43jpegs/119279.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>