[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] -- [WAR OF 1812]. A group of colonial and early American documents and ephemera, comprising:

A Gunner's Certificate, 12 Oct. 1759. 6-1/4 x 7-1/2". (framed and glazed). Manuscript notice that George troy served five years as gunner's mate on the ships Cumberland and Dartmouth. Signed J. Brown.

Group of receipts and payout notes from the State of Connecticut:
--Hartford May 17, 1775; Sgd. by Wm Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, Oliver Ellsworth – Pay Table Committee members
--Receipt from Elijah Hubbard, Middletown, 2 Jan. 1780
--Hartford, 26 Apr. 1780, Sgd. Daniel Bradley
--[Hartford] 25 Feb. 1778, Sgd. John Sherman
--Hartford, 21 June 1775, Sgd. By Wm. Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, Oliver Ellsworth (Committee)
--Windsor, 12 Sept. 1780, Sgd. By Henry Allyn and Ebenezer Bissell / Select Men of Windsor (Bissell was one of the founding families in Windsor)

Hand-colored lithograph of Major General Gates. 4 x 5-1/4" (sight). London: R. Wilkinson, 1783.

Program for the ceremony celebrating the issue of a postcard (FDC) with John Hancock postage.

Partially printed DS, John Webb & Co. and Webb, Holmes & Co. Leghorn, 30 Apr. 1799. 10 x 15-1/2 in. Addressed to Moses Brown, Newberryport, MA. Notice that France has taken possession of Tuscany (bloodless takeover) including the city of Leghorn. Includes a list of products handled by Webb.

6 x 7-3/4" "Fac-Simile of the Standard of he 25th Regiment of U.S. Infantry After the Battles of Chippawa & Bridgewater Upper Canada. the 5th & 25th July 1814." With drawing of the standard, including a broken pole.

CORNE, M. Print of the drawing of Com. Macdonough's Victory on Lake Chaplain Sepr. 11th 1814. Print ca 1816. 4-3/4 x 8" (sight). "Engraved for the Naval Monument."