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RUFUS PUTNAM

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 350.00 USD
RUFUS PUTNAM
(1738 - 1824) Revolutionary War colonel and engineer responsible for the defensive works at Dorchester Heights and New York. Fine war-date partial A.D.S.: "Sworn before me in Camp at Ft. Montgomery August 5th 1779 R. Putnam Col. Comdg.". Mounted, slight show-through from text on verso, else very good. With a period engraving. Only three weeks earlier, Putnam had led Continental forces at Stony Point to divert British troops from the main attack. Fort Montgomery is perhaps only a mile or two from Stony Point.

Estimate: $250 - 350.

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