Winter Auction 2019 Sale 74
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/18/2019
(1745 - 1807) American politician, delegate to the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Fine content war-date manuscript D.S., 1p. oblong 8vo., Hartford, Apr. 11, 1776, making a 500 pound payment reimbursing Commissary Samuel Squire for expenses incurred while: "...marching the Troops lately sent from this Colony to New York with Genl. [Charles] Lee, by order of Gov's and Council of Safety..." Fine condition, matted with an engraving of Ellsworth and two battle scenes, all set into a silvered wood frame.