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Autographs
4	WENTWORTH CHESWELL (1746-1817). Born in Newmarket, New Hampshire to a Free black man of biracial ancestry and a white woman, he attended the prestigious Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts, where he received a classical education, and returned to Newmarket, NH to become a Schoolmaster; Elected as Town Constable in 1768, and was elected to other positions, including Assessor, Auditor, and Justice of the Peace, to which last post he was elected in 1805 and served until his death. He is considered to be the First African American elected to public office in the Unitd States, as well as the First Black Judge in the United States. A black Revolutionary War veteran, Cheswell served in 1777 in the Saratoga Campaign.	$1,500 - $2,000
11	BENJAMIN EDES (1732-1803). Benjamin Edes instigated and paid for the Boston Tea Party - and, to his death, guarded the secret list of all who participated, a.k.a. “FATHER OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY”; A FOUNDING MEMBER “THE SONS OF LIBERTY”; Bookseller, Printer, Publisher, Journalist, and Patriot; maintained the most radical of Boston newspapers in the period leading up to the American Revolution; a Founding Member of the “Loyall Nine” -- the group that eventually became “The Sons of Liberty”. DAVID JEFFRIES (1714-1784). Deacon of Old South Church and Town Treasurer of Boston during the Revolutionary War.	$5,000 - $6,000
12	THOMAS FITCH (c.1699-1774). Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1721. Served in the Connecticut General Assembly and was Governor of the Colony of Connecticut from 1754 to 1766, leading the Colony through the tumultuous years of the French and Indian War.	$1,800 - $2,400
17	JAMES MADISON (1751-1836). Founding Father from Virginia who served as the 4th President of the United States (1809-1817); hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in Drafting and Promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights; President during the War of 1812 against Great Britain. JAMES MONROE (1758-1831). 5th President of the United States. During the War of 1812, Monroe held the critical roles of both Secretary of State and the Secretary of War under President James Madison.	$4,000 - $6,000
20	HENRY MIDDLETON (1717-1784). A Founding Father of the United States from South Carolina, President of the Continental Congress from South Carolina (1774-1774), Delegate to the Continental Congress (1774-1774), Signer on a rare South Carolina Currency issue in 1775, being the only available “Collectable” example of Henry Middleton’s autograph.	$2,000 - $4,000
25	OLIVER PRESCOTT (1731-1804). Served as Chairman of the Groton, Massachusetts Town Committee that protested the British Stamp Act in 1765 and was Clerk of the Town's Committee of Correspondence in 1774; Served in the Militia before the American Revolution and at the start of the Revolutionary War became Brigadier General of the Middlesex County Militia, then Appointed the 3rd Major General of the Massachusetts State Militia in 1778; During the Siege of Boston, he was charged with setting up checkpoints to stop communication between the British garrison and pro-British sympathizers in the countryside; Served on the Massachusetts Supreme Executive Council from 1777 to 1780.	$3,500 - $4,500
26	(SELECTMEN OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS) Signed by; Elias Hasket Derby, Jr. (War of 1812 Militia General and Privateer); Edward Norris (Shipmaster); Jonathan Waldo (Important Salem Apothecary) and Jacob Sanderson (Historic Salem Cabinetmaker).	$800 - $1,200
31	CAPTAIN EBENEZER SMITH (1745-1819). Oldest and Longest Serving Revolutionary War Captain in the Massachusetts Line with over eight years service, the Principal Guard Officer over Major Andr, present when the hour of execution was announced to him, present in the 6th Mass. Regiment when the regiment was furloughed June 12, 1783 at West Point, NY and disbanded on Nov. 3, 1783 and original 1783 Society of the Cincinnati Member.	$1,000 - $1,500
32	ROBERT SMITH (1757-1842). 2nd United States Secretary of the Navy (1801-1809), and through Thomas Jefferson's Presidency; he served as the 6th Secretary of State under President James Madison from 1809 to 1811.	$1,400 - $1,800
39	ARTEMAS WARD (1727-1800). American Revolutionary War First Commander of American Patriot Forces Post April 19, 1775 Battle of Lexington Green & Concord; Council of Massachusetts-Bay; Member of the Continental Congress and the U.S. House of Representatives. OLIVER PRESCOTT (1731-1804) Colonial-era Physician, Soldier, and Judge; in 1776 he was appointed a Brigadier General for Middle-Sex County by the Executive Council of Mass Bay: he also was in the same year chosen as a Member of the Board of War; in 1777 Elected a Member of the Supreme Executive Council, 1778 Appointed the Third Major General of the Militia throughout Massachusetts.	$2,400 - $3,400
Colonial America
43	June 24, 1693-Dated, Single Sheet (Printed on Both Sides), measuring 12.5” x 7.5”, Choice Extremely fine or better. A rare 17th century newspaper with a question and answer format, with fascinating early ads and notices on the verso including one for a new and now very rare Boston pamphlet titled: “A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches”.	$800 - $1,200
45	1756-Dated Colonial Period French and Indian War Imprint, titled "Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company in Boston, New England; June 7, 1756. Being the Anniversary of their Election of Officers. By Ebenezer Pemberton, M.A. Pastor of a Church in Boston. Boston, New-England: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, next to the Prison, in Queen-Street, M,DCC,LVI." S Choice Very Fine	$2,000 - $3,000
53	PAUL REVERE, JR. Copper-plate Engraved Bookplate for Gardner Chandler, Printed Restrike Printed Off the Original Engraved Copper-Plate by Revere, Crisp Near Mint.	$600 - $800
54	(HENRY WOOD) (Born about 1619-September 30, 1670) in Middleboro, Plymouth, MA, at about 76 years of age). Reference: Mayflower Descendants, Volume XIII, Plymouth Colony Vital Records, page 86, "Henry Wood and Abigail Jenney the xxiiith April 1644" son of Johanem John Atwood. Henry and his brothers Stephen and John came to Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts in either 1641/43 with John Jenny and family, and used the surname "Wood".	$5,000 - $6,000
55	October 14, 1706-Dated Early Colonial Era, Manuscript Document, a Bond Signed by Major John Walley (who Commanded the 1690 Battle of Quebec Land Forces) to Andrew Faneuil (Uncle of Peter Faneuil of Faneuil Hall fame), Guaranteeing Payment of four Bills of Exchange, Boston, Choice Very Fine.	$2,000 - $3,000
59	PAUL REVERE (1734-1818). Original Hand-Colored Copper-Plate Engraved Print titled: “The BLOODY MASSACRE perpetrated in King - Street, BOSTON on March 5th 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt.”, Boston: Engrav’d Printed & Sold by Paul Revere, (March 1770), One of only 29 Known, most held in Institutional Collections, Framed, Very Fine.	$200,000 - $300,000
62	Feby. 1st 1775-Dated, Historic Map titled, “A Plan of the Town and Chart of the Harbour of Boston Exhibiting a View of the Islands Castle Forts and Entrances into the Said Harbour. - Feb 1st 1775”, measuring 11" x 14" (by sight), London, 1 February 1775., Framed, Very Fine.	$1,800 - $2,400
71	November 24, 1774-Dated Pre-Revolutionary War Colonial Period, Newspaper fully titled, "The Massachusetts Spy Or, Thomas's Boston Journal.", with the historic "JOIN OR DIE" Patriotic Legend within a “Severed Snake” Design in the Masthead, representing the American Colonies, “Volume IV.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1774. (Number 199.” published by Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831), Boston, 4 pages, complete, expertly conserved, Fine.	$8,000 - $10,000
72	(PAUL REVERE, JR.) (1735-1818). American Silversmith, Engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution, most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approaching British forces before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride".	$8,000 - $10,000
Revolutionary War
79	Colony of Massachusetts Bay, August 18, 1775, One Shilling, with unique “PINE TREE” vignette, Paul Revere Engraved Copper-Plate First Denomination of the First “Sword in Hand” Issue with reverse legend, “Issued in defence of American Liberty.” and Minuteman Design, also with the First “Due Date” of August 18, 1778, Very Fine.	$10,000 - $12,000
81	December 15th 1774-Dated Revolutionary War Era, Imprint titled: “THANKSGIVING DISCOURSE,” Intolerable Acts & Boston Port Bill Calamities, A Discourse Preached by John Lathrop, Minister, Printed by D. Kneeland; and Sold by Samuel West, in Queen-Street, Boston, Very Fine.	$1,200 - $2,400
82	September 28, 1775-Dated Revolutionary War Period, Exceptional Typeset & Woodblock Printed Broadside titled, “TO ALL TRUE WHIGS, And particularly to such as are Independent Electors of the City and County of New York.”, issued by “The Friends of Liberty,” New York City, Very Fine.	$15,000 - $20,000
107	(1868), “A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New England and British Ships of War Landing Their Troops 1768” the 100th Event Anniversary Commemorative Hand-Colored Engraved facsimile by Alfred L. Sewell, after Paul Revere’s original circa 1779 Engraving of the 1768 Landing of British Troops in the Town of Boston, printed by the Western Bank Note and Engraving Company of Chicago of “One Hundred Years Ago” (1868), Framed, Choice Crisp Near Mint.	$4,000 - $5,000
George Washington
115	c. 1793 Mezzotint Engraving titled: “George Washington. President of the United States of America. From the Original Portrait Painted at the request of the Corporation of the University of Cambridge in Massachusetts.”, after a painting by Edward Savage, engraver not identified yet believed to be Engraved by Edward Savage, Framed, Choice Fine or better.	$6,000 - $9,000
Federal Period
130	1828-Printed Document titled, “THE VIRGINIA ADDRESS.” an Anti-Jackson Convention of Delegates, “TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.” Former Presidents James Madison and James Monroe address to the people of Virginia, 8 pages, Complete, Fine.	$600 - $800
Encased Postage Stamps
165	1862 Civil War Era Encased Postage Stamp, EP-34a, HB-30, S-15, Reed AS03MD. Three Cents, AYER’S SARSAPARILLA, Medium “AYER'S” with Legend, “Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to Purify the Blood”, Choice Very Fine.	$350 - $450
173	April 19, 1798-Dated, Autograph Document Signed, “John Claflin” the father of the Civil War Era Advertising Merchant Encased Postage Stamp Encasement “Arthur M. Claflin” of Hopkinton, Mass., selling Land in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Choice Very Fine.	$500 - $1,000
Historic Maps
205	November 1, 1762 French & Indian War Published, Engraved Map titled: A PLAN of the HAVANA and its Environs, with the several POSTS and ATTACKS made by the British Forces; under the Command of the Earl of Albemarle and Sr. Geo. Pocock, which was taken 13 Aug. 1762...”, Engraved by Thomas Kitchin (1718-1784), Framed, Very Fine.	$4,000 - $5,000
206	1856 Colton‘s Color Wash and Outline Color Map of the United States, Large framed Engraved paper USA Map showing the lands allotted to the Indian tribes and west of the Mississippi, the various internal improvements, etc., compiled from surveys at the United States land office and various other authentic sources by J Calvin Smith, New York, published by J H Colton and Company, Framed, Very Fine.	$10,000 - $15,000

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