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First African American Statewide Office Holder FRANCIS LEWIS CARDOZO Confirms a Power of Attorney

(FRANCIS LEWIS CARDOZO) (1836-1903). Served as a minister in New Haven, Conn. before returning to South Carolina in 1865 with the American Missionary Association to establish schools for Freedmen; founded the Avery Normal Institute, the major school for training African American leaders for South Carolina; in 1868 a Delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention; won election as Secretary of State of South Carolina, making him the First African American to hold a statewide office in the United States; Cardozo was the chief inspiration for villain Silas Lynch in Thomas Dixon Jr.'s novel The Clansman (1905) D. W. Griffith's film based on the novel, The Birth of a Nation (1915).




Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Wentworth Cheswell - First African American Elected to Public Office in the United States and First Black Judge

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 Revolutionary War veteran, he served in 1777 in the Saratoga Campaign.




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1780 Benjamin Edes Signed Revolutionary War

“Boston” Town - Treasury Tax Loan Certificate:

“for the Purpose of carrying on the War.”

Signed by “David Jeffries” Deacon of Old South Church

Not Listed in Anderson

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.




Estimate: $5,000 - $6,000

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1755 French and Indian War Letter Signed by Governor Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island with Important Content regarding Raising more men to Reinforce and Strengthen the Expedition Against Crown Point, Per Genl. Braddock’s Defeat

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.




Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000

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