THOMAS GAGE
$500.00
60047-45
(1721 - 1787) English general and colonial governor of Massachusetts, commander in chief in North America who used troops to seize military stores precipitating the Battle of Lexington and Battle of Bunker Hill, resigned 1775. A.L.S. "Gen'l Gage" in the third person in the first line of text, 2pp. 4to., "Portland Place", June 4, 1784, to a Mr. Blackburn. Gates discusses the measurement of "Turner's estate", and complains about the surveyors: "...They had refused to shew [sic]the survey..." which showed less land than a previous survey had indicated. Some paper loss at bottom costing portions of about six words of text, expertly silked on both sides and inlaid, remaining entirely presentable.