7 18th-century documents. [With:] PORTER, David (1780-1843). Postal cover signed ("D. Porter").

Court order to seize 100 acres of land in a court decision verdict. Windham, Connecticut. 1732/1733. -- LUTWYCHE, Edward. Manuscript order for payment of merchandise at cash price out of a warehouse. Lutwyche, a Boston innkeeper, signs. Boston, MA. August 1740. -- Partly printed document authorizing two men in Boston to make an appraisal of the estate of the late William Tilley. 19 December 1769. Signed ("F. Hutchinson") by Foster Hutchinson, brother of Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusets. -- LAWRENCE, John (1719-1802). Manuscript receipt signed ("John Lawrence Esq.") for payment of £12 to Mr. William Mosely. Connecticut Pay Table Office. 26 January 1782. -- Letter from a doctor in the Caribean island nation of "Dominica," to his brother in New York, including reference to 7 years in a "starving condition." 29 April 1783. -- SKIPWITH, Fulwar (1765-1839). Partly printed bill of exchange signed ("Fulwar Skipwith"), as American Counsel General, Paris. 16 December 1797. Skipwith was instrumental in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and was the first and only governor of the Republic of Wet Florida.

Conditions of documents generally good with expected wear, age, toning, creasing, chipping, and light soil.

[With:] PORTER, David (1780-1843). Postal cover signed ("D. Porter"), addressed to Captain Samuel Evans, Navy Yard, New York.

Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the “Historical Shop”