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10		WILLIAM ELLERY (1727-1820). Signer of the Declaration of Independence for Rhode Island, member “Sons of Liberty,” 1776 Delegate to the Continental Congress from Rhode Island and on its Marine Committee, Naval Officer for the Colony of RI, Signer of RI Currency Notes, and appointed as Continental Congress Loan-Office Commissioner for the State of RI, etc.	$1,800 - $2,400
14		STEPHEN HOPKINS (March 7, 1707 - July 13, 1785). Founding Father of the United States; Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Continental Association; Four-Time Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court; Member of First Continental Congress; Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court; First Chancellor of Brown University; Speaker of the Rhode Island General Assembly; Author of the First Anti-Slavery Law in the United States.	$6,000 - $8,000
Colonial America
56		December 11, 1751-Dated, Colonial Rhode Island “Land Bank” Original Mortgage Bond, Indenture/Deed, Partly-Printed Document Signed, “Benjamin Potter” along with his red wax seal, Exeter (RI), Choice Very Fine.	$2,400 - $2,800
57		April 14th, 1766-Dated, Historical Manuscript Document Signed, Town Clerk Official True Copy dated to August 17th, 1818 of the “Tree of Liberty” of Newport, Rhode Island. An Original Historical Research Document and Archive containing Four Items with Six Pages and includes the Official True Copy of the Deed of the Tree of Liberty & of the lands whereon it Stands, written by Town Clerk William Read.” Also documenting the authorized Trustee’s Decendants to care for the Tree from that day forward: “chosen by the Survivors of them, upon the decease of either of them, forever, in such succession, a certain large Button Wood Tree, standing at the North End of Thames-street, in Newport,...”. Newport, Rhode Island, Very Fine.	$5,000 - $10,000
Revolutionary War
85		December 29, 1779-Dated Revolutionary War, Manuscript Document Signed, “Hercules Mooney Colo. Comtt,” (Committee) being a rare “Regimental Court Martial” for various infractions by soldiers in that Rhode Island unit and cases to be heard by the Members, Signed at Providence, Rhode Island, Very Fine.	$1,500 - $2,000
War of 1812
140		War of 1812 Era, Reverse Painting on Period Beveled Glass of Naval Officer Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819) a.k.a. “Hero of Lake Erie” in Silhouette Portrait, with its original Period Frame, Extremely Fine.	$2,800 - $3,600

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