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STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN COUNCIL, January 1, 1777. Whereas a considerable number of men...

[Bounty for Enlistment]

STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN COUNCIL, January 1, 1777. Whereas a considerable number of men belonging to this state have inlisted into the service of the United States, as Non-commissioned Officers and private Soldiers, to serve during the War, and as Part of the Fifteen Battalions to be raised by this State, upon the Terms and Encouragement offered by the Continental Congress, aand the additional Encouragement of Twenty Shillings a Month offered by this State:.... [followed by 32 lines of type, approximately 320 words including the final paragraph as follows]: ...And be it further Resolved, That every other Non-commissioned Officer and private Soldier, not belonging to any other of the United States, who shall have inlisted or hereafter shall Inlist into either of the said Battalions for the Term of Three Years, or during the War, shall in Addition to the Pay and Encouragement given by the Continental Congress, be entitled to and receive the Sum of Twenty Pounds, upon his passing Muster. The said Bounty of Twenty Pounds to be paid in Treasurer's Notes of Ten Pounds, payable. to the Possesor in Four Years from the Sixth of December last, with Interest to be paid Annually, at the Rate of Six per Cent, provided such Non-commisioned Officer or private Soldier shall furnish himself with a good Fire Arm and Bayonet fitted thereto, a Cartouch Box and Knapsack.

[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1777]. Broadside. 25 x 21 cm. Signed in type by John Avery, Dep'ty Secretary, and by Samuel Freeman, Speaker, P.T. Faint old fold lines, else a surprisingly fresh copy. ESTC: MHS, MA. OCLC adds none. We find one at LC. BRISTOL B4504 SHIPTON & MOONEY... More about STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN COUNCIL, January 1, 1777. Whereas a considerable number of men...

Price: $7,500.00

SLAVE CATCHER'S BILL]. Aaron Lane

Lane, Aaron

[SLAVE CATCHER'S BILL]

Cranbury [NJ]: May 9, 1818. Manuscript invoice, in ink, 23 cm., 1p., approx. 60 words. Aaron Lane's bill to William Newell, Cranbury [NJ], May 9, 1818, for "cash paid John McChesney for his wages in hunting 3 days for his Negro Charles...." A straighforward invoice recording the amount Lane paid... More about SLAVE CATCHER'S BILL

Price: $750.00

IN COUNCIL, NOVEMBER 7th, 1775. Whereas by an Act of this Colony, made in the Sixteenth Year of...

Morton, Perez. Dep. Sec'y.

IN COUNCIL, NOVEMBER 7th, 1775. Whereas by an Act of this Colony, made in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of George the Third, intitled, An Act impowering the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace, within this Colony to grant Licences, to Innholders and Retailers ... Resolved, that before any such licences be granted to Innholders, Retailers or common Victuallers, every person applying ... shall produce a Certificate from the Major Part of the Selectmen of the Town where they dwell, recommending them to be Persons of sober Conversation ... and particularly, that they be firmly attached to the Rights and Interests of their Country; and that this Resolve be Published in Hand Bills, and sent into each Town in this Colony.

[Watertown, Mass: Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1775] Imprint supplied by Evans. Broadside. 21 1/2 x 16 1/2 cm. A true copy, signed in type, and sent down for Concurrence by Perez Morton, Dep. Sec'y., in the House of Representatives, November 7, 1775. Read and concurr'd and sent up by J.... More about IN COUNCIL, NOVEMBER 7th, 1775. Whereas by an Act of this Colony, made in the Sixteenth Year of...

Price: $4,500.00

I [blank] DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BE FREE, INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN...

[Loyalty Oath]

I [blank] DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BE FREE, INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN STATES, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great-Britain; and I renounce, refute and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him; and I do [blank] that I will, to the utmost of my power, support, maintain and defend the said United States against the said King George the Third, his heirs and successors, and his or their abettors, assistants and adherents, and will serve the said United States in the office of [blank] which I now hold, with fidelity, according to the best of my skill and understanding.

[Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1776] Imprint supplied by EVANS, however this title is the revised oath of allegiance adopted Feb. 3, 1778. Broadside. 21 x 16 1/2 cm. Single sheet with two copies of the oath printed on the sheet, uncut and unused. The upper has small loss of... More about I [blank] DO ACKNOWLEDGE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO BE FREE, INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN...

Price: $2,750.00

WATERTOWN, JULY 3, 1776. IN COUNCIL.; "ORDERED, That the following Part of the Resolution of this...

[Massachusetts Council] [Broadside]

WATERTOWN, JULY 3, 1776. IN COUNCIL.; "ORDERED, That the following Part of the Resolution of this General Assembly respecting the Declaration prescribed in the Act, commonly called the Test Act, be forthwith published in Hand Bills, and sent to the several Committees of Inspection and Safety of the several Towns, Districts, and Plantations within this Colony, and delivered to every Member of this present Assembly.Resolved, That the Committees of Inspection and Safety of each and every Town and Place in this Colony, be, and they hereby are directed to omit tendering the Declaration prescribed by an Act passed in the last Session of the General Court of this Colony, commonly called the Test Act; and also to refrain from requiring the Inhabitants of this Colony severally to subscribe said Declaration; and that all Proceedings against such Persons as have already refused or neglected to sign the same Declaration, be stayed till the further Order of this Court. A true copy. Attest, JOHN AVERY, Dep. Sec'y."

[Watertown, Mass. Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1776] Imprint information supplied by Bristol. Broadside. 17 x 15 cm. Small closed tear, stain on left third of paper, some wear along an old fold line. Encapsulated. John Avery, whose name appears in type at the bottom of this broadside, was part of... More about WATERTOWN, JULY 3, 1776. IN COUNCIL.; "ORDERED, That the following Part of the Resolution of...

Price: $5,000.00

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIVER POTOMACK, ETC. Tobias Lear

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Lear, Tobias

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIVER POTOMACK, ETC.

Baltimore: Samuel T. Chambers, 1940. 1 of 150 copies. Wraps. 8vo. 26pp. Frontis. portrait tipped in. Reprint of the orig. 1793 ed. With the unpublished correspondence of George Washington & Tobias Lear about the observations. Edited by Chambers. Very good. More about OBSERVATIONS ON THE RIVER POTOMACK, ETC

Price: $65.00

GET A HOME IN ARKANSAS. S. L. Kay

Kay, S.L.

GET A HOME IN ARKANSAS

Little Rock, Ark. Issued by Land Dept. of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways, (ca. 1904). 6 3/4 by 5 in. (28) p. , illustrated. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers lettering in orange, green design with inset of house on front cover... More about GET A HOME IN ARKANSAS

Price: $125.00

Making a claim for a payment of a debt in an autograph letter, signed 8 August 1877, from Helena,...

CLOPTON, James W.

Making a claim for a payment of a debt in an autograph letter, signed 8 August 1877, from Helena, Arkansas, on hie King & Clopton letterhead, to Judge E.L. Black, Probate Judge for Lee County, Marianna, Arkansas.

4to. 2-pages, approximately 300 words. Acting as administrator for a young woman's estate, Clopton makes a claim for payment of a debt incurred prior to the death of the young woman's grandfather, Arthur Slaughter. The letterhead describes Clopton's company as "Cotton Factors, Wholesale Grocers, and Dealers in Staple Dry Goods."... More about Making a claim for a payment of a debt in an autograph letter, signed 8 August 1877, from Helena,...

Price: $45.00

GROUP OF FOUR BROADSHEETS ADVERTISING "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE," AND "PROF. FLINT'S HORSE AND...

Kendall, Dr. B.J.

GROUP OF FOUR BROADSHEETS ADVERTISING "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE," AND "PROF. FLINT'S HORSE AND CATTLE CONDITION AND RENOVATING POWDERS."

[Enosburgh Falls, VT: B.J. Kendall Company, 1880s-1900s]. The small broadsheets include: 1) FACTS TO BE CONSIDERED. [Text begins] "Ten years ago Kendall's Spavin Cure was practically unknown...." [and on verso] CONVINCING EVIDENCE THAT KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE WILL DO ALL THAT IS CLAIMED FOR IT. [followed by two columns of testimonials..... More about GROUP OF FOUR BROADSHEETS ADVERTISING "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE," AND "PROF. FLINT'S...

Price: $125.00

DREADFUL / CATASTROPHE / OF THE EXPLOSION OF THE SHIP AT N. YORK JUNE 4TH / 1829, WHEN 100 MEN...

DREADFUL / CATASTROPHE / OF THE EXPLOSION OF THE SHIP AT N. YORK JUNE 4TH / 1829, WHEN 100 MEN WERE MOSTLY KILLED OR WOUNDED. [printed with] JOHNSON'S EXECUTION,-- 1829. [and with] CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE.

[New York? np, 1829?]. Single sheet, 56 x 22 cm., printed on both sides. Three poems, printed in three columns each, plus several paragraphs of Christian advice. Beside the printed title of the first poem, "Dreadful Catastrophe" is a vignette of a sailing ship (a lightly printed image), decorative border... More about DREADFUL / CATASTROPHE / OF THE EXPLOSION OF THE SHIP AT N. YORK JUNE 4TH / 1829, WHEN 100 MEN...

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LETTER TO HIS BROTHER WILLIAM E. GREEN, in Worcester, Massachusetts, concerning an incident...

Green, Meltiah

LETTER TO HIS BROTHER WILLIAM E. GREEN, in Worcester, Massachusetts, concerning an incident between the "aristocrats" and the "democrats".

New York: May 26, 1795. One page autograph letter signed. Single sheet approximately 160 words. After opening with some family news Green writes; "By the time this reaches your hand we shall have some News from France there is a vessel expected dayley there was a dredful squabble in the... More about LETTER TO HIS BROTHER WILLIAM E. GREEN, in Worcester, Massachusetts, concerning an incident...

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RULES AND REGULATIONS, For the Gate Keepers of the Third Great Western Turnpike Road Company

RULES AND REGULATIONS, For the Gate Keepers of the Third Great Western Turnpike Road Company

[New York: np, 1810?]. Broadside. 31 x 21 cm. Decorative border. Title in bold, with two columns of text beneath. Among the rules: gate should be shut at all times, unless for use; only exemption for not paying farm, church, mills, funeral, blacksmith, physician; no credit; commuters pay half, etc.... More about RULES AND REGULATIONS, For the Gate Keepers of the Third Great Western Turnpike Road Company

Price: $375.00

GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition. John Gay

Gay, John

GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition

Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, 1808. 15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365. More about GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition

Price: $250.00

LINCOLN AND CABINET. Annual Greeting of the Carriers to the Patrons of "The Press". For January...

LINCOLN AND CABINET. Annual Greeting of the Carriers to the Patrons of "The Press". For January 1st, 1866.

[Philadelphia, PA]: Meichel & Plumly, 3rd & Race, [1866]. Black and white lithograph. 24 x 29 cm. double matted backed with foam board. Light grayish stain in upper right corner margin, otherwise a sharp, fresh impression. Depicts Lincoln and his cabinet (seven men) seated and standing around a table in... More about LINCOLN AND CABINET. Annual Greeting of the Carriers to the Patrons of "The Press". For...

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ACCOUNTS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN UTAH TERRITORY. LETTER FROM THE...

Smith, Caleb B. (Secretary of the Interior]

ACCOUNTS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN UTAH TERRITORY. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, TRANSMITTING REPORT OF THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ACTS OF GOVERNOR YOUNG, EX OFFICIO SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN UTAH TERRITORY. JANUARY 15, 1862. REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS, AND ORDERED TO BE PRINTED

[Washington, DC]: 37th Congress, 2d Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc No. 29. 1862. First edition. 25 cm. 124 pp. Stitched sheets. These accounts of Brigham Young's as Indian commissioner in Utah from 1856-1861 include the period of the Utah War, when Young was an agent of the U.S. government... More about ACCOUNTS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IN UTAH TERRITORY. LETTER FROM THE...

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FAMILY AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES, A MANUSCRIPT RECORD OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS KEPT BY MARY...

Lodge, Mary Elizabeth (1815-ca.1906)

FAMILY AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES, A MANUSCRIPT RECORD OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS KEPT BY MARY ELIZABETH LODGE, 1840s-1890s.

Small leather-bound notebook, chipping to spine ends. 17 cm., approx. 85 pp. of entries, almost all in her fine, legible hand. A few newspaper clippings tipped in, and several notes (some addressed to "Aunt Mary") laid in. Beginning with her own marriage to Giles Henry Lodge (1805-1888) in 1845, she... More about FAMILY AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES, A MANUSCRIPT RECORD OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS KEPT BY MARY...

Price: $250.00

INFORMATION FOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR HEIRS! [Caption title]. . S. Weeden, lnathan

Weeden, E[lnathan]. S.

INFORMATION FOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR HEIRS! [Caption title]

[Chicago, Illinois]: ca. 1870s. Broadside. 43 x 29 cm. Text in four columns, with three Civil War illustrations beneath title. Loss of one letter where it had been folded. Weeden was a Chicago attorney at law and pension agent, operating out of Chicago. During the Civil War he was a.... More about INFORMATION FOR SOLDIERS AND THEIR HEIRS! [Caption title

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MANUEL PEREIRA; OR THE SOVEREIGN RULE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. WITH VIEWS OF SOUTHERN LAWS, LIFE, AND...

Adams, F. C.

MANUEL PEREIRA; OR THE SOVEREIGN RULE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. WITH VIEWS OF SOUTHERN LAWS, LIFE, AND HOSPITALITY.

Washington, D.C. Buell & Blanchard, 1853. 21 cm. [4], [2], 302, [2] pp. Original printed wraps, untrimmed. Slightly chipped around edges of wrappers and spine. WRIGHT Vol. 2, 12. LCP/HSP Afro-American Catalogue, 52. An anti-slavery fiction based on true events. A South Carolina law required the imprisonment of black mariners... More about MANUEL PEREIRA; OR THE SOVEREIGN RULE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. WITH VIEWS OF SOUTHERN LAWS, LIFE, AND...

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LOSS OF THE SHIP ALBION! [Caption title

LOSS OF THE SHIP ALBION! [Caption title].

NP: np, ca. 1825. Broadside, 10 x 5-5/8 in., nine four-line stanzas within an ornamental border. Paper browned and a little stained, trimmed right down to border, small piece of ornamental border missing from lower left corner. Not in AMERICAN IMPRINTS or OCLC. The poem commences: "Come all you jolly... More about LOSS OF THE SHIP ALBION! [Caption title

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Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Young America Fire Engine Company, No. 2, Adopted July...

[Fire Fighting]

Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Young America Fire Engine Company, No. 2, Adopted July 20th, 1858. "The Public Safety is our Incentive to Action." Company organized July 4, 1858.

Peoria, (IL): Daily Transcript Book and Job Printing House, 1862. First edition thus (?). 12mo. 9, (3) pp. Final page prints a certificate, to be filled out in manuscript, for members as they join the unit; this copy made out to James Ward, and signed by the company's foreman and... More about Revised Constitution and By-Laws of the Young America Fire Engine Company, No. 2, Adopted July...

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THE WIDOW OF THE VILLAGE, or, Adventures of innocence. A moral tale, by the celebrated Marmontel....

Marmontel, Jean François

THE WIDOW OF THE VILLAGE, or, Adventures of innocence. A moral tale, by the celebrated Marmontel. Translated from the original French by Mr. Heron. To which is added, the Error of a Good Father.

New-Haven, [CT]: Printed by George Bunce, 1799. 14 cm. 145 [i.e. 119] pp.; 12, 23-99, 110-119, 126-145. Paper boards with leather spine with creative early stitching through spine. Last page glued to board. SHIPTON and MOONEY 35769. More about THE WIDOW OF THE VILLAGE, or, Adventures of innocence. A moral tale, by the celebrated Marmontel....

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THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE. COOK BOOK. Miss T. S. Shute

Shute, Miss T. S.

THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE. COOK BOOK.

Philadelphia, [PA]: George T. Lewis and Menzies Company, 1877. First edition. 12mo. 212 pp. Original brown cloth, with gilt stamping on spine and front boards, faded with a couple of stains on rear joint. Well used, with many notes in pencil & ink on interspersed blanks. A sound, complete copy... More about THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE. COOK BOOK

Price: $225.00

REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. On the 10th of June, 1848,...in Walpole Village... I will sell at...

[Tannery Stand and Steam Boilers] [New Hampshire] Allen, George

REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. On the 10th of June, 1848,...in Walpole Village... I will sell at auction...the Tannery Stand lately occupied by Harvey Reed, on which there are thirty large Tan Vats...[and] will be sold three large Steam Engine Boilers, with the Engine and Apparatus which were in the building at the time of the fire...[Caption title & partial text].

Walpole, [N.H.]: May 1, 1848. Folio broadside, 54 x 39 cm. Small pieces missing at all four corners, and a small V-shaped chip at the upper center of the margin, likely from having been posted. Old fold lines and foxing. Bleed through from an ink note on verso from the... More about REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. On the 10th of June, 1848,...in Walpole Village... I will sell at...

Price: $300.00

MATHEMATICAL TEXTBOOK, INCLUDING DEFINITIONS OF COMMON TERMS, WORD PROBLEMS AND CALCULATIONS, ALL...

[Scheetz, Jacob?]

MATHEMATICAL TEXTBOOK, INCLUDING DEFINITIONS OF COMMON TERMS, WORD PROBLEMS AND CALCULATIONS, ALL IN A NEAT, LEGIBLE HAND.

[1798?]. Folio, approx. 340pp. Boards lacking, leather spine partly perished, cracked and worn, first page of manuscript notes is detached. The names of both Jacob Scheetz and John Schuetz appear in the margins of the text, and the date '1798' is mentioned in some of the subject headers. Calculations are... More about MATHEMATICAL TEXTBOOK, INCLUDING DEFINITIONS OF COMMON TERMS, WORD PROBLEMS AND CALCULATIONS, ALL...

Price: $600.00

DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D....

DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D. 1831. [Caption title].

[Boston, MA]: Boston Masonic Mirror, [1831]. Broadside, 50 cm. x 34 cm. Trimmed close all around. An extraordinary publication, requiring considerable personal courage. Signed in type by over 1500 Massachusetts Masons, many of whom must have been exceedingly reluctant since Morgan's murder in 1827 to be publicly identified as Masons... More about DECLARATION OF THE FREEMASONS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. Presented to the Public December 31, A.D....

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