[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Group of items associated with Rev War-era figures incl. Alexander HAMILTON.
Rev. Dr. Nott's Discourse, on the Death of General Hamilton. Delivered in the North Dutch Church of Albany, July 29, 1804. Printed at Hanover [NH], By Moses Davis. 1804. 27pp. (toned, large loss at upper right corners of pp 21-24). 8vo, string bound. Shaw & Shoemaker 6950. A scarce edition. Provenance: Norm Flayderman, Catalog #111, Item #524.
[With:] WILLETT, Marinus (1740-1830). Partly printed writ from the City of New York, 9 August 1792. Signed on verso ("M Willett / Sheriff") as Sheriff of New York County. Colonel Marinus Willett was an important Patriot leader in colonial New York before service in the Continental Army. In 1807-1808 he served as the 48th Mayor of New York City. -- LUNT, Ezra (ca 1743-1803?). Revolutionary War-date receipt signed ("Ezra Lunt"), Newburyport [MA], 8 January 1778. According to A History of Newburyport, Mass., 1764-1905, "Ezra Lunt, son of Matthew and Jane Lunt, was born April 10, 1743. In 1774 he was part owner and publisher of the Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet and the proprietor of a four-horse stage coach advertised to leave Newburyport for Boston every Monday morning.... After the Battle of Bunker Hill, Captain Lunt re-enlisted in the Continental army, and had command of a company under Col. Moses Little at Long Island and in New Jersey. At the close of the war he was granted an innholder's license by the selectmen of Newburyport . He leased a dwelling house, near the corner of Federal and Water streets, which he occupied as a tavern for several years. In Shay's rebellion he had command of a company that marched from Newburyport and served for several months in the western part of the state of Massachusetts.... In 1789, or a year or two later, he removed to Ohio, where he died in 1803." -- Note addressed to Doctor Timothy Grafton Darling (1731-1784), Boston, 21 June 1770. Darling served as a surgeon in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
[Also with:] Pennsylvania 1 Shilling Red and Black, April 10, 1777. Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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