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Revolutionary War

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Revolutionary War

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Auction Date:2012 Dec 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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 manuscript DS, signed by 34 soldiers of Capt. Luke Drury's Company, one page, 7.75 x 12.25, February 9, 1776. The document reads, in part: “Recd of Capt. Luke Drury the full of all our Wages as Officers & Soldiers in his Company in Colo Wards Regt in the Continantal [sic] Army for the Months of November & December Last…We have likewise Re[c]d all the money due to us for milk Peas & Indian meal & Ration Money to Carey [sic] us home in full as witness our Hand…"

The following signatures appear in the order they are listed on the document. Additional information from The History of Grafton by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1879, is added in brackets: "Edmund Dolbear [of Boston], Thaddeus Kemp [mark] [of Billerica; enlisted April 29, 1775], Thomas Leland, Jr., [Cpl.] Joseph Leland, [Cpl.] William Walker, William Evans, Moses Rawson, Joseph Plumley [of Alstead], Joseph Anthony [enlisted April 29, 1775; African-American], Eliphalet Smith [born in Suffield, CT; of Sandisfield], Matthias Rice, [Fifer] Zadock Putnam, [Sgt.] Ebenezer Phillips, [Drummer] Elijah Rice, [Sgt.] Shelomith Stow, Thomas Pratt, Eseck Dexter [Esek Dexter], Edward Buttridge [Edward Buttrick], Isaac Brigham, Zebulon Daniels, Forten Burnea [mark], Fortin Fortune [Fortunatus Burnee; African-American], [Sgt.] Nathan Morse, [1st Lt.] Asaph Sherman, Ebenezer Melendy, Simeon Dexter [of Cumberland], [Sgt.] Jonah Goulding, George Smith, Jonathan Hemenway [Jonathan Hemingway; of Framingham], Samuel Starns [Samuel Stearns], Ebenezer Wadsworth [mark] [of Alstead; guardian of above William Evans], Peter Butler, [2nd] Lt. Jonas Brown, Thomas Leland [Sr.], and John Banks [of Alstead].”

At least 15 of the signers were Grafton, Massachusetts-area Minutemen who had responded to the Lexington-Concord Alarm on April 19-21, 1775, including Fortune Burnee, of African American and Native American heritage, and his half-brother, Joseph Anthony, who enlisted on April 29 and died in service.

In very good condition, with a central horizontal and vertical fold, rough horizontal edges, a couple pinhole-size areas of paper loss to folds, and scattered toning. It is rare to find such a large number of Minutemen signatures on a single document.
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