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Lot 10: 1776 Copy of Gen. Howe’s Orders

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Lot   10: 1776 Copy of Gen. Howe’s Orders
<b>Autographs</b><hr><b>General Howe’s 1776 Dated Orders Regarding “Them That Have Taken Up Arms Against The King”</b>

<b>(AMERICAN REVOLUTION), 1776 Contemporary True Copy of General Howe’s Orders Just After The Battle of Long Island.</b>
Manuscript Orders (signed by Oliver D. Lancey), from Commander in Chief General William Howe to Colonel Phineas Fanning “or the Next Commanding Officer.” 1 page, 7.5” by 9”, Huntington (Long Island), September 2, 1776. In Choice Extremely Fine.
Just days after the British victory in the Battle of Long Island and Washington’s retreat to Harlem Heights - which allowed the British to occupy New York - Howe orders Fanning to direct:
“all the King’s Captains or next Commanding Officers of the Militia, in the third Battalion in Suffolk County, to call their Several Companies together... to order them that have taken up Arms against the King to lay down their Arms and to take the Oath of Allegiance to the King and to sign a Note of Submission Disclaiming and Rejecting the orders of Congress.”
Lancey, in whose hand these Orders are, was the commander of a regiment of Loyalist New Yorkers in the Battle of Long Island.