Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents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 ...

Eight Dollar note, Philadelphia, May 9, 1776. Printed by Hall & Sellers. 13-stringed harp (representing the thirteen "United Colonies"...

Delightful miniature manuscript receipt for pay for a Vermont private. Freetown 'presumed Bristol County, Mass.], Oct. 24, 1777, 2 1/2 x 4 1/4. ...

Fascinating, thought-provoking A.L.S. of H.D. Whitcomb, (Supt.), "Office, Va. Central R.R. Co.," Richmond, June 20, 1863, 5 3/4 x 9, 2 ful...

Charismatic postwar carte of the Confederate Commander-in-Chief, boldly signed at lower portion in deep brown. As President of Washington & Lee ...

Petit 11-star Stars and Bars flag, hand-stitched, made during the Civil War. 2 x 4 1/4, comprising two red (now pink), one white, and one midnight blu

Significant telegram, in clerical hand, from Confederate A(jt.) & I(nspector) Gen. S(amuel) Cooper, highest ranking officer in the Confederate A...

Three fascinating, lengthy postwar A.Ls.S. of Confederate Lt. W(illiam) H. Sebring, previously of 2nd Tenn. Infantry and 10th Kentucky Cavalry. A rema

$500 note, Richmond, Feb. 17, 1864. Criswell T64/489 variant. Keatinge & Hall. Stonewall Jackson at lower right, equestrian statue of George Was...

$1000, Act of Feb. 20, 1863, issued Mar. 2. 7%. Oval portrait of Stonewall Jackson; steamboat at bottom. Archer & Daly. Pink paper. With seven c...

Confederate telegram, in field hand, from fearsome (Brig. Gen.) M. Jeff Thompson, on partly printed form of South-Western Telegraph Co., Senatobia (Mi

T.L.S. of John F. Lehane, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. of Texas, Tyler, Oct. 3, 1905, "Cotton Belt Route" logo, 8 1/4 x 10 3/4. To S...

Partly printed form, Wilcox County, Ala., Mar. 11, 1865, in which Constable Robert J. Adams posts $1,000 bond, and pledges allegiance to the Confedera

Letter of semi-literate - and wavering Confederate soldier Jacob B. Bodenhamer, soon to be a Unionist. "Camp near Arng 'Orange?] Court hous...

Superior letter of Confederate (1st Sgt.) Jas. H. Broun, Co. A, 3rd Regt. Alabama Vols., "Entrenched Camp at Oak Grove," (Va.), Feb. 27, 1...

Genuine pictorial label as used on envelopes during Civil War (now valuable and scarce). Postage-stamp-size, 25 x 30 mm, crimson red and water blue on

Confederate #12, greenish blue. Small kraft adversity cover, handmade from a scrap of lightweight wrapping paper, to "Rev. James P. Boyer, Gree...

Confederate #11, greenish blue, on orange cover. Socked on nose "Raleigh N.C. / Jan 5 '1864]." To "Mrs. Marie S. Speight, Gainesv...

Confederate #1, lightish green, tied with black "Charleston S.C. / May 30, 186 'last digit not stamped]," on buff cover. To "Col....

Confederate #4, dark blue, Stone 2, tied with black "Calhoun Ga. / Jan 24" on mocha cover. To "Mrs. Aleck Dismalus'?], Florence, ...

An interesting folded manuscript document, with integral address-leaf bearing Confederate #11, blue. Lowndes County, Miss., Jan. 30, 1865, signed by...

Confederate #11, ever so slightly greenish blue. Groundwood adversity cover, addressed in light pencil to "Mrs. Nannie G. 'Charles] Figgat,...

1861 Series. Hoyer & Ludwig, Richmond. Showing sailor at capstan, and full-masted ship. Numbered in red. "Six months after the Ratification...

1864 Series. Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C. Oval portrait of Jefferson Davis. Dual number stamped in black."Five Years after...." Ser...

1864 Series. Keatinge & Ball, Columbia, S.C. Oval portrait of Jefferson Davis. Dual number stamped in black. "Five Years after...." Se...

1864 Series. No printer. State Capitol at Nashville, and Alexander H. Stephens. "Two Years after...." Serial letter B. No Series. Two flou...

1864 Series. Keatinge & Ball/"Lithogd. by Evans & Cogswell." State Capitol at Richmond, with oval portrait of C.G. Memminger. Espe...

The Complete Court-Keeper: or, Land-Steward's Assistant. "The Nature of Courts Leet and Courts Baron...The manner of holding Courts...the N...

The First Part of the Institutes Of the Laws of England. "Or, A Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the Author only, but of the Law itse...

The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, in Most Cases of Importance, Debated, and brought before Them; From July 1621, to July 1642..., &...

Contentious, somewhat topical political volume, Arbitrary Government Displayed to the Life, in The Tyrannic Usurpation of a Junto of Men called the Ru