Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

Pay order to Revolutionary War Capt. Benjamin Durkee, Connecticut, 1784, partly printed, 5 1/4 x 6 1/2 , (unsigned by him). A veteran of Valley Forge,

Pay order to Revolutionary War Capt. William Latham, Connecticut, 1784, partly printed, 6 x 6. Signed on verso, with "Capt. Artillery" als...

Pay order to Revolutionary War Capt. - and homeopathic physician - John Warner, veteran of Valley Forge. Responded to Lexington Alarm; a Minute Man in

Significant, excessively rare printed broadside-style Continental Army order, "Head-Quarters, Philadelphia, Dec. 13th, 1776," signed-in-ty...

The Boston-Gazette, and Country Journal, Jan. 17, 1774. Broadsheet, 2 pp., 9 3/4 x 15, bearing Paul Revere's celebrated masthead design, showing...

Historic manuscript warrant to attend a New England town meeting, Reading, Mass., Sept. 17, 1768, 6 1/4 x 10 1/2, signed by Brown Emerson, Town Clerk.

Small, heavy iron component of "saluting cannon" found at the key Spring Hill, Ga. site of the Battle of Savannah's ill-fated Franco-A...

Group of four metal Revolutionary War period artifacts, found by noted archaeologist Frank Kravic at Fort Ticonderoga, probably dug in the 1970s: Two

Fascinating group of 17 Revolutionary War period artifacts, dug at site of "Continental Village," an encampment of huts in New York's ...

Strikingly attractive uncut sheet of four partly printed 1789 Connecticut receipts, "Received of Oliver Wolcott, Comptroller of the Public Acco...

Unusually fresh colonial D.S. of John Giles, Justice of Peace Steph(en) Sewall (signed both sides), Henry Sewall, and Daniel Gilbertt, Salem, Massachu

Lovely D.S. of J(osiah) Willard, Secretary of Province of Massachusetts Bay, known as "the good secretary," serving 39 years; Harvard Clas...

A.L.S. of American officer "Jno. Trotter, B(rigadier) Major," Brigade Head Quarters, n.p., Mar. 5, 1779, to Capt. 'James?] Flowers ...

A.L.S. of American officer Zabdiel Rogers, "Colo. of 20th Reg.," Norwich (Conn.), Jan. 1, 1781, 8 x 12 3/4. To noted Capt. Elijah Backus. ...

Highly unusual, endearing letter of wife Mehitabel Wadsworth, Middletown (Conn.), "Dec. ye 16, 1771," to her husband, Capt. Jere(miah) Wad...

Superlatively rare broadside containing ballad, "On the Death of Polly Goold" - one of the most popular elegies in young America. An overl...

Manuscript D.S. of M(eschech) Weare, colonial New Hampshire jurist, Chief Justice of N.H. 1776-82, and first Pres. of N.H., 1776-84. Exeter, Oct. 22,

Fascinating file of ten different partly-printed membership applications, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, 1921-2

Hand-forged iron spike from the British Revolutionary War ship George, captured from the Redcoats in Quebec in 1775, renamed Enterprise and personally

Delightful, hand-colored French steel engraving allegorically exalting hero Marquis de la Fayette, c. 1785. "Presente a Monsieur le Marquis de ...