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1761WRCAM56427Albany 1761. Manuscript plan in pen and ink with watercolor on four conjoined sheets of paper 21 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches signed at lower right "W.B. Albany Augt. 18th 1761." Old folds minor edge wear light soiling a few unobtrusive minor repairs to verso. Very good. A beautifully-rendered pen ink and watercolor plan of Fort Detroit executed by noted cartographer William Brasier for his commander General Jeffrey Amherst in Albany in 1761. It depicts Fort Detroit just months after it was ceded from New France to Great Britain and very much as it would look for the next four years. This version of Detroit would hold strong against Pontiac and his warriors throughout their barrage in the summer of 1763. <br> <br> William Brasier produced this plan after an original drawn the year before by Lieutenant Diedrich Brehm which was also presented to Amherst some months earlier in February 1761. Brehm had accompanied Robert Rogers from Detroit to New York in late 1760 and early 1761 and arrived at Amherst's command in New York with his plan of Detroit in tow. It is here in Albany where Brasier used Brehm's plan to create the present depiction. <br> <br> Like Brehm's plan Brasier's version presents Fort Detroit as a long roughly rectangular-shaped settlement populated with about seventy mostly-unidentified buildings colored in light red-brown. The names of north and south streets are labeled according to their orientation; this was just the second time the first being on Brehm's map that these streets were identified in print. The fort is shown just off the banks of what is now the Detroit River; a handwritten notation in the water reads "The Streight is about 900 Yards wide here." <br> <br> Brasier includes a "Reference" key at bottom left which identifies six of the buildings and other locations on the plan namely the "King's Powder Magazine" the powder magazine belonging to the inhabitants of the fort the block-houses "The Cavalier" the church and the "Commandant's Garden." This is down from nine locations in a similar key on Brehm's plan. Brasier's plan of Detroit was featured in Brian Leigh Dunnigan's FRONTIER METROPOLIS: PICTURING EARLY DETROIT 1701- 1838 and Dunnigan illuminates the reasoning behind Brasier's elimination of some of these locations: <br> <br> "Brasier's title 'Plan of the Fort at De Troit' does not reveal why it was drawn but the work is not an exact copy of Brehm's original. The differences lie in the west end of the town where all of the buildings shown by Brehm along both sides of the 'Rue neueve St. Germain' have been deleted. These stood within the space gained when Captain Belestre enlarged the stockade during 1758- 59 and it is likely that Brasier's copy relates to the controversy over ownership of those properties. At least twelve grants were made within the town by Captain Belestre during 1758-59 and most were in the area of expansion at the western end of the stockade. Before it had been incorporated into the town however that land was part of the Domain surrounding the fort and was thus the property of the French king. British officers questioned whether Captain Belestre had the authority to grant lots there to individuals. If not the land was rightly the property of King George III." <br> <br> Brasier also followed Brehm by including a "Profil sic of the Stockade" and an elevated depiction of the fort titled "View from the West." The stockade profile is a detailed depiction of the construction of Detroit's main defensive apparatus. The view of the city is considered the "first look at the town of Detroit in other than a ground plan or a map" according to Dunnigan. The perspective of this view was intended to be that of Rogers' troops as they faced the main gate upon arrival at the fort. The tops of many of the buildings including Belestre's own house peek over the tops of the surrounding stockade. The view also makes clear the reality of the uneven ground upon which Fort Detroit was built; the ground swells from left to right to about the middle of the fort then pitches downward again towards the river at right before plunging down to the river banks just outside the stockade walls. <br> <br> William Furness Brasier 1689-1775 was a draftsman in the engineer's office of General Amherst's command post at the time he executed the present plan of Fort Detroit. He was also a prolific and exacting cartographer who produced well-regarded maps of Lake Champlain the upper Hudson River valley and the Mississippi River as well as impressive plans of Fort Ticonderoga Fort Ontario Fort George Mobile and Pensacola and St. Augustine Florida. <br> <br> The whereabouts of this plan were unknown to Dunnigan at the time he published FRONTIER METROPOLIS. The plan remained in the collection of General Jeffrey Amherst and descended through his family until it was bought by Charles Sessler for H. Richard Dietrich at Sotheby's sale of the Earl of Amherst's collection July 4 1967 lot 494. It has been in the Dietrich American Foundation ever since. Brian Leigh Dunnigan FRONTIER METROPOLIS: PICTURING EARLY DETROIT 1701-1838 Detroit: Wayne State University 2001 p.55 figure 4.5. Sotheby's & Co. CATALOGUE OF AMERICANA VOYAGES AND TRAVEL ATLASES AND MAPS London: Sotheby's July 4 1967 pp.102-03. unknown books
178063128Head Quarters Bergen County NJ 1780. Folio one page approximately 125 words in part: "I perceive . that you had collected about two hundred Cattle more and that a further number might be obtained . I cannot of right command the services of the militia . let the commanding officers know how distressed the Army has been and is likely to be for provisions and that it will be rendering splendid service to us and distressing the enemy to remove the Cattle from those parts of the Coast which furnish the New York Markets." Very good. Browned one small piece detached one word of text easily repaired. After Washington's victory at Monmouth June 1778 during which battle Forman had served as an advisor to Charles Lee the war settled into stalemate with Washington's army in New Jersey and the British forces content to remain in New York both sides keeping an eye on each other while trying to provide for their soldiers the American forces suffering deprivation similar to that of Valley Forge. Meanwhile on the day this letter was written word reached Washington of the complete rout of Horatio Gates and his troops at Camden South Carolina opening Virginia to British invasion from the South. Bolstered by American victories at Kings Mountain Oct. 1780 and Cowpens Jan. 1781 and the depletion of Cornwallis's army at its victory over Nathaniel Green at Guilford Court House Washington in conjunction with his French allies moved south to envelop Yorktown earning the British surrender in October 1781 effectively ending the war. General David Forman 1745-1797 born and raised in Monmouth County New Jersey was appointed colonel of a New Jersey regiment that reinforced Washington at New York in June 1776. After suppressing a loyalist uprising later that year during which time he earned the nickname "Devil David" he was chosen to lead a regiment in the Continental army and in 1777 was commissioned brigadier general to lead the New Jersey militia commanding that force in the battle of Germantown Oct. 1777. Disagreements with the New Jersey legislature led to his resignation from that command and he spent the rest of the war running listening posts especially along the coast of New Jersey providing Washington with intelligence on the movements of the British fleet and army a service he was providing at the time of this letter. see DAB Tench Tilghman 1744-1786 born and raised in Talbot County Maryland graduated from the precursor to the University of Pennsylvania in 1761 taking up a mercantile business until the outbreak of the revolution. After serving briefly as a captain in the army he joined Washington as a volunteer and served continuously as an aide-de-camp to the general for the balance of the war. "The amount of secretarial work in addition to military duties that he performed for Washington was prodigious" DAB and he was granted a regular commission of lieutenant-colonel in 1781. After the victory at Yorktown Tilghman was chosen by Washington to carry the announcement of the surrender of Cornwallis to the Continental Congress. Provenance: When recently purchased the letter was in an old frame and removal revealed an autograph note inside the backing included here as follows: "This letter was bought by me about 1860 of Miss Brown residing at 92 Columbus Street Albany New York. She was a sister of an old minister of St. Peters Church. This Miss Brown was a client of Orlando Meads and myself and found this letter in a barrel in the garret of the home occupied by her sister at Manalapan New Jersey formerly owned by General David Forman. signed Dexter Reynolds / Albany Sept. 7 1902. Presented to my son Marcus T. Reynolds." A newly discovered Washington letter shedding light on the general's relationship to state militias and his concerns for providing for his troops while disrupting the supply lines of the British. Not in Fitzgerald or the Founders Online from the National Archives which lists 57 other Washington letters to Forman 1777-1782 showing a gap from 24 July 1780 to 17 May 1781 and two others post-war. 9836. <br/><br/> unknown books
175736652Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1757. 4 volumes quarto. 10 x 7 1/2 inches. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. viii lxxv 1 1811 61 1cvii120; xiii 1 646; xvi319 1; 6 xxv 1 654pp. 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary mottled calf gilt with arms of the duke of Sutherland on upper covers spine gilt in compartments with fleurs-de-lys and crowned L monogram red morocco lettering-pieces red speckled edges<br/> <br/>Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower Duke of Sutherland and Marquis of Stafford gilt arms on binding armorial bookplate<br/> <br/>Critical work on the French and Indian War particularly respecting Canada: with the very rare fourth volume seldom found with the set.<br/> <br/>A valuable collection of historical documents and official papers setting forth the opposing claims of France and England to North American territories. This is the most important contemporary source for the origins of the Seven Years' War. The commissioners William Shirley governor of Massachusetts Sir William Mildmay representing Great Britain and the Marquis de la Galissonière and E. de Silhouette acting on behalf of France were appointed after the Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle in 1748 to reach an agreement regarding the definition of the exact geographical boundaries of Acadia ceded by France to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 under the vague definition of "its ancient limits." The documents and papers contained herein provide a significant historical record of Acadia with a discussion of the first permanent settlement in Canada early trading companies and subsequent occupation of the country. Of particular and great importance is the continual discussion of the early maps explorers and geographers of America. Besides the Acadian question the third and fourth volumes contain considerable material on disputes over St. Lucia and Tobago in the West Indies. The fourth volume issued two years after the other three volumes is quite rare and seldom found with the set although is present here.<br/> <br/>Howes M508; TPL 235; Lande 148; Vlach 350; COX II p.120; Sabin 47547 incorrectly calling for 3 maps; JCB I:1074. Imprimerie Royale unknown books
176337559London: Robert Sayer 1763. Engraved map on four joined sheets hand coloured sectioned and linen backed at a contemporary date. Overall sheet size: 42 1/8 x 47 3/8 inches. Housed in a tan cloth box. An early issue of Bowen and Gibson's impressive wall map of North America: the first issue following the end of the French and Indian War.<br/> <br/>Bowen and Gibson's map was first issued in about 1755 under the title An Accurate Map of North America. It was reprinted and served as a template for the enormous political changes of the next forty years attesting to its importance. Aside from its stunning visual impact Bowen and Gibson's map teems with information including numerous Native American placenames in the western areas native tribal regions notes and routes of early roads and the forts along the Mississippi and to the west of the Appalachians. The two insets are of Baffin and Hudson's Bays and the mouth of the Colorado River the latter map based on the explorations of Eusebio Kino. The roccoco cartouche is particularly attractive and features a Native American couple with their small child and a group of indigenous animals: beaver alligator parrot and the skin of a mountain lion. The present issue was the first to the published following the French and Indian War and includes the boundaries as reflected by the Treaty of Paris of 1763.<br/> <br/>Stevens & Tree "Comparative Cartography" 49b in Tooley The Mapping of America; Degrees of Latitude 36; Phillips A List of Maps of America p. 589. Robert Sayer unknown books
177520781.03<p>A scarce petition for pay listing 44 members of Captain Luke Drury's Company 27 of whom were Grafton Massachusetts-area Minutemen who had marched 36 miles to respond to the Lexington-Concord Alarm on April 19-21 1775. The list includes Fortune Burnee a Minuteman of African American and Native American heritage and his half-brother Joseph Anthony who enlisted on April 29th and died in service. Another of the Minutemen listed is the famous clockmaker Aaron Willard.</p> <b>REVOLUTIONARY WAR.</b>Manuscript Document Dorchester Massachusetts December 30th 1775 addressed to Massachusetts Treasurer Henry Gardner. 1p. 8 x 13 in. Likely Drury's retained copy from the time with the signatures all in one hand though some may be signed with marks & Jonathan Hemenway has signed himself.<p>Petition<i> "to pay Capt Luke Drury the Whole of our Wages as born on his Muster roll for our Services as Officers & Soldiers in his Company from the time of our inlistment to the first Day of August for which this shall be your effectual voucher." </i></p><p>Today the terms <i>minuteman </i>and <i>militiaman</i>are often used interchangeably but there was a distinction in the eighteenth century. Militia were men in arms formed to protect their towns from foreign invasion. They could designate up to one quarter of their force as minutemen a specially trained force required to be highly mobile and able to assemble instantly to a call to arms. It is difficult to categorize specific men into either of the two groups based on the surviving historical record. We apply the term here to all of those militia who responded April 19-21 1775 to the Lexington-Concord Alarm. </p><p>The 27 soldiers and officers listed here who were part of Luke Drury's Grafton Aaron Kimball's Grafton & John Putnam's Sutton April 19-21 Minutemen companies are: 1st Lt. Asaph Sherman Sgt. Nathan Morse Sgt. Shelomith Stow Sgt. Ebenezer Phillips Sgt. Jonah Goulding Cpl. William Walker Cpl. Joseph Leland Drummer Elijah Rice Fifer Zadock Putnam Matthias Rice Isaac Brigham Eliphalet Smith George Smith Peter Butler Thomas Pratt William Evans Elisha Aldrich Aaron Willard Eseck Dexter Moses Sherman Fortinatus Fortune Burnee signed with mark Edward Buttrick Ebenezer Leland Solomon Brooks Ebenezer Melendy Thomas Leland Sr. & Samuel Stearns.</p><p><b>Luke Drury</b>1734-1811 of Grafton Massachusetts joined the militia in 1757 during the French and Indian Wars. As captain of a company of Minutemen and Militamen he responded to the Lexington Alarm and later joined Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment to fight at Bunker Hill. Drury and his men served in different areas during the war from West Point to Grafton where his company guarded military stores. He also supported the Continentals financially at one point giving £50 fifty pounds to enlist soldiers in Grafton.</p><p>In 1786-1787 Drury became deeply involved in Shays' Rebellion a tax revolt led by farmers in western Massachusetts. The uprising was quashed and Drury imprisoned as "a person dangerous to the state." He was eventually released on good behavior. Drury remained active in state and local politics serving terms as constable deputy sheriff tax collector assessor selectman and state legislator.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Usual folds small loss at bottom left corner affecting some marginal ciphering else fine condition.</p><p><b>Joseph Anthony</b> and <b>Fortune Burnee Jr.</b> half brothers were both part African-American and Hassanamisco Nipmuc Native American. Compared to records of white New Englanders we know relatively little about them but even so more information exists on these freedmen than is the norm. Several of the Anthonys and Burnees were recorded in the Grafton vital land and probates records the U.S. census neglected to record Native Americans from 1790-1890 and the Burnees have been discussed in recent historical and sociological literature: exploring the relationships both amongst marginalized peoples as well as with their white Yankee neighbors in eighteenth century New England; the definitions of race and identity; social mobility; Indian and black cultures; gender roles; Anglo-Nipmuc land dealings; and the remarkable preservation and history of an 190-acre tract of land in Grafton known as Hassanamesit Woods which is the site of a seventeenth-century "praying Indian" village with Nipmuc habitations that clung on into the mid-nineteenth century.</p><p><b>Joseph Anthony</b>was born in Grafton on December 24 1753 son of Joseph/William Anthony "Negro" and Abigail Printer Abraham "Indian." According to a Nipmuc leader and genealogist Anthony's ancestors include Hassanamisco Nipmuc Chief Anaweakin second in command in King Philip's War in 1675-6; along with Philip/Metacom Anaweakin was killed and his children sold into slavery; his father Noas Sachem of Hassanamesit forced into exile at the same time and died at Deer Island in Boston Harbor; and Nanapashemet Great Sagamore of the Massachuset Federation who was killed in battle in 1619 at Rock Hill Medford the year before Massachusetts was colonized by the English.</p><p>In 1728 seven Indian "Planters" or householders and 33 English re-divided the land at Hassanamesit to incorporate the town of Grafton. In 1739 Abigail Printer married Andrew Abraham Jr. "Indian Planter." Based on Abigail Printer's surname and the very small population left at Hassanamesit in the 1700s it is believed that she is a descendant of Rev. John Eliot's notable contemporary James Printer a Harvard student in 1645-46 who worked for Samuel Green printing Eliot's famous "Indian Bible" in 1663. Abigail and Andrew had three sons before he died in August 1746 after returning from service in the Port Royal Campaign.</p><p>Abigail married second November 14 1752 Joseph/William Anthony. Little is known of him other than his listing in town records as a "Negro." It appears he died circa 1756. Their son the signer of this document <b>Joseph Anthony</b> married Lydia Mercy Johnson. He enlisted in the army April 29 1775 and was reported missing July 6 1777 probably at the Battle of Ticonderoga and dead December 26 1777 possibly a prisoner of war on board an infamous New York City British prison ship. At the time he was a private in Capt. Blanchard's Company of Col. James Wesson's 9th Massachusetts Regiment.</p><p><b>Fortune Burnee Jr.</b> Grafton records spell his name a number of different ways. Dr. David R. Mandell believes there was one man of that name but we find that Electa Kane Tritsch's postulation that there was a father and a son of the same name makes more sense. Abigail again a widow married a third time January 27 1757 to Fortune Burnee Sr. described as "Negro" a veteran of one or more expeditions to Canada during the French and Indian War and widower of another Hassanamisco Sarah Muckamaug Whipple. Mandell writes that Burnee had changed his first name from William to Fortune based on his good luck but does not cite the source or anecdote: Fortune seems more likely a given slave name. He also claims that Burnee abandoned his first wife Sarah before her death but Tritsch has found no evidence for this: that statement may have been compounded with Sarah's first husband Aaron Whipple of Providence Rhode Island. It is thought that Burnee Sr. died about 1771. If so his son <b>Fortune Burnee Jr</b>. is the man who served under Capt. Luke Drury. It is as yet unknown if he is the son of Fortune Burnee Sr.'s second wife Abigail Printer Abraham Anthony Burnee who died in 1776 or his first wife Sarah Muckamaug Whipple Burnee who died in 1751 thus he is either Anthony's younger half-brother or older step-brother. It is interesting to observe that Burnee signs another Drury document with a mark while Anthony was capable of signing in full – whether that hints that Anthony was the younger brother with less responsibilities on the homestead and more opportunity for education is mere speculation. However Tritsch probably by process of elimination finding that Fortune Burnee Jr. does not appear in Sarah's estate papers assigns him as the younger a son of Abigail and half-brother of Joseph Anthony. Fortune Burnee Jr. marched on April 21 1775 in response to the Lexington-Concord Alarm. Marriage records then show that Fortune Burnee Jr. married July 31 1778 "Phylis…negro servant of Rev. Mr. Frost…of Mendon both are listed as "Negroes" and then November 8 1781 Sarah Hector of Sutton again both are listed as "Negroes". He died in 1795.</p><p>Without going into the complex history of Hassanamesit and the Hassanimisco praying Indians Reverend Ezra Stiles's 1761 impressions of the settlement are notable: "At Grafton…I saw the Burying place & Graves of 60 or more Indians. Now not a Male Ind. in Town & perh. 5 Squaws who marry Negroes." By 1770 the town selectmen reported "that there is but one male Indian left" – this man was in fact one of Sarah Muckamaug Whipple's bi-racial children Joseph Aaron. 87 years earlier in 1674 Daniel Gookin had noted that the Indian village had contained twelve families perhaps sixty souls – King Philip's War of 1675-76 and its lingering years of conflict played a major part in this population displacement and decrease.</p><p><b>African Americans & Native Americans in the American Revolution</b></p><p>Of the estimated 100000 men who served in the Continental Army at least 5000 were black. Most black soldiers fought in integrated units as in Massachusetts; some states like Rhode Island had segregated regiments while Connecticut seems to have had both segregated and integrated. Both enslaved and free African-Americans served in the army as soldiers laborers and servants. In some cases slaves were offered freedom for their services as soldiers though others remained enslaved fighting in place of their masters. Many states had been reluctant to arm the black population but had no other countermove to the British Lord Dunmore's offer of freedom to Southern black enlistees. A significant number of colonial blacks at this time were also partly of Native American ancestry – to take once state Massachusetts's eighteenth-century Indian population had two females to one male while the majority of the imported African slave laborers were male. Those figures coupled with their removal to neighboring outskirts of colonial society as well as the enslavement of many Indians in New England after King Philip's War did much to comingle the two ethnic groups.</p> books
177734560Hartford 1777. Small printed broadside oblong 4" x 2-3/4". "Christopher Sherman" is inserted in manuscript as the name of the volunteer. An "X" for "his mark" is in ink at the end over an attempt to sign his name. For the year "177" is in type and the final "7" in manuscript. "Date" at the bottom is in manuscript along with the month probably "janry". Outer margin closely trimmed but text unaffected. Very Good. <br/><br/> An unrecorded form of Revolutionary War enlistment engagement exceedingly interesting for its reference to "the United States of America." Recorded enlistment engagements from this era-- all of them rare-- refer to the "United Colonies of America" "America" the "Colony of Massachusetts" the "Colony of Massachusetts-Bay". We have handled an unrecorded Massachusetts enlistment engagement from this period which refers to the "United States of America." Enlistment engagements from Connecticut referring to the "United States of America" from this era are unrecorded.<br/> The Continental Congress renamed the Nation "United States of America" on September 9 1776 ordering that "In all continental commissions and other instruments where heretofore the words 'United Colonies' have been used the stile be altered for the future to the 'United States'."<br/> Christopher Sherman was a Private under Captain William Richard's Company in the First Regiment of the State of Connecticut commanded by Lieut. Col. Samuel Prentice Esq. in 1777. A manuscript notation on the payroll sheet for the period January to June 1777 states that he deserted on January 10th or 18th. Revolutionary War Rolls 1775-1783; National Archives Microfilm Publication M246 138 rolls; War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records Record Group 93; National Archives Washington. D.C. accessed at Ancestry website. <br/>Not located on NAIP ESTC OCLC as of November 2020. unknown books
1761319882Great Britain 1761. 2pp. plus integral blank. Docketed on verso "King's Warrant / Province of Massachusetts / Bay £60634 in part / of £200000 Granted for / the North American / Provinces." Signed by George III at the head of the first page countersigned on the second page by William Wildman Barrington James Oswald and Gilbert Elliot. Folio 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Usual folds. 2pp. plus integral blank. Docketed on verso "King's Warrant / Province of Massachusetts / Bay £60634 in part / of £200000 Granted for / the North American / Provinces." Signed by George III at the head of the first page countersigned on the second page by William Wildman Barrington James Oswald and Gilbert Elliot. Folio 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Towards the end of the French and Indian War William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies the colonial assemblies were thus incentivized to raise troops to fight against the French. The present document authorizes Henry Fox to make payment to Massachusetts via their colonial agent William Bollan for their share of the annual grant. Although successful the policy was abandoned in favor of direct taxation after 1762 leading to the Sugar Act and most notably the Stamp Act. <br/><br/>This undated document -- the space for the date being left blank suggesting it to possibly be a draft -- is countersigned by William Wildman Barrington Chancellor of the Exchequer 21 March 1761 to 8 May 1762; Sir Gilbert Elliot third Baron Minto Lord of the Treasury 1761-62 and James Oswald Commissioner of the Treasury 1759-63. The date would therefore appear to be 1761 or early in 1762.<br/><br/>George III documents relating to North America from the early years of his reign are particularly scarce. unknown books
1757303318Lisboa: Domingos Rodrigues 1757. First edition. Woodcut vignette to title-page. 7 blank pp. Small 4to. A very good copy some very faint dampstaining. First edition. Woodcut vignette to title-page. 7 blank pp. Small 4to. THE BATTLE OF LAKE GEORGE. A Portuguese translation of General William Johnson's "Letter to the Governours of the Several Colonies who raised Troops on the Present Expedition" signed in the text "Wilhelmo Gonson." <br/><br/>Not long after the commencement of the Seven Years' War Johnson was appointed British agent to the Iroquois. On 28 August 1755 he renamed Lac Saint Sacrement Lake George in honor of the British monarch and proceeded north as part of a four-pronged attack on the French specifically to capture the French-held Fort St. Frédéric at Crown Point. <br/><br/>"It was not the greatest battle of the French and Indian War but it came when a victory was needed and the results were momentous. It retrieved both the glory and morale so badly depleted when Braddock fell at the forks of the Ohio the previous July. It blunted a French drive which menaced Albany and the northern frontier set up a new English outpost in that area and the capture of a distinguished French general Dieskau was triumph for the victors and humiliation for the enemy" Hamilton.<br/><br/>The publication of this letter was of course a remarkable source of propaganda for the English and boosted Johnson's career signficantly. The letter was reprinted in London an engraved plan of the battle was produced as well as portrait. This Lisbon printing is however very rare and little known. It's not in COPAC there wasn't a copy in the Streeter Sale. In fact the last copy on the market we can find was in 1928. Not in Church; Sabin 38661; Maggs "Biblioteca Americana" IV 2998; Milton W. Hamilton "Battle Report: Genreal William Johnson's Letter to the Governors Lake George September 9-10 1755" in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society April 1964 pp 19-36 [Domingos Rodrigues] unknown books
175738668Newtown NJ 1757. 1p. Signed by Henry Simson Joseph Byram John Anderson Thomas Woolverton and Joseph Parry. The French and Indian War on the New Jersey "Front Tears."<br/> <br/>In the wake of Braddock's defeat with tensions with the Delaware Valley Indian tribes rising and with a perceived threat that the tribes of the Delaware Valley would invade into New Jersey at the end of November 1755 Governor Belcher detached hundreds of West New Jersey troops to the New Jersey/Pennsylvania border and into Pennsylvania many under the command of Colonel Abraham van Campen. The present document concerns the death of a resident of Sussex County who evidently travelled with Van Campen and Colonel Jacob Ford to the "front tears" to "parley or hold a treaty with the Indians there" but "hath never returned & by report was near about that time killed." The document advocates for his bereaved wife and suggests that his eldest son be appointed heir and estate administrator. Another copy of this document addressed to "Your Honour" appears in the Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey first series vol. xxxii p. 326. unknown books
1766237662London: Edward and Charles Dilly 1766. Third edition revised and corrected of vols.I-III; second edition of vols. IV & V. With 41 portraits and 8 folding maps. iv 495; 464; 480; 470 26 Index pp. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary panelled reversed calf boards tooled in blind leather title labels. Extremities worn joints rubbed front hinge of volume I detached and front endpaper laid in. Very good. Text clean. Bookplate. Third edition revised and corrected of vols.I-III; second edition of vols. IV & V. With 41 portraits and 8 folding maps. iv 495; 464; 480; 470 26 Index pp. 5 vols. 8vo. History of the French and Indian War drawn largely from primary source material and with much pertaining to the war in North America and the West Indies. Entick 1703-1773 was a prominent lexicographer and historian. Howes E165a; Sabin 22667 Edward and Charles Dilly unknown books
1755319725Annapolis: Jonas Green 1755. 2pp. Bound with: Acts of the province of Maryland made and passed at a session of Assembly begun and held at the city of Annapolis on Saturday the twenty-second day of February in the fourth year of the dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick Lord Baron of Baltimore absolute lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon &c. Annoque Domini 1755. Published by authority. 8pp. Folio. Period wrappers restitched some losses to the blue sugar paper old repairs at head of each leaf with minor losses old dampstaining. 2pp. Bound with: Acts of the province of Maryland made and passed at a session of Assembly begun and held at the city of Annapolis on Saturday the twenty-second day of February in the fourth year of the dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick Lord Baron of Baltimore absolute lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon &c. Annoque Domini 1755. Published by authority. 8pp. Folio. Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign. Passed in December 1754 "to raise a Body of able Land-men for his Majesty's Service against the French and their Allies on this Continent" this separately-printed session law essentially authorizes a draft system for forcing "all and every able-bodied Freeman who live idle and do not follow or exercise some lawful Calling" to be enlisted as soldiers. Given the timing it is believed that the troops being raised were intended for service on the Braddock expedition against Fort Duquesne.<br/><br/>Bound together with the above is a second session printing of Maryland laws including acts relating to the French and Indian War: "An Act to Prevent the People of this Province from Supplying the French or their Indian Allies with Ammunition Warlike Stores or Provisions of any Kind" and "An Act for Regulating the Rates of Carriage and Quartering Soldiers in Public Houses within this Province for His Majesty's Service." Also included are acts on currency courts and tobacco.<br/><br/>Both session printings are rare with ESTC recording only five copies in four institutions and eight copies in six institutions respectively. Bristol B1727 and Evans 7458; Wroth 179 and 180; ESTC W33246 and W7078 Jonas Green unknown books
1799WRCAM48177Philadelphia 1799. Broadside 13 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches printed in three columns. Docketed in ink on verso. Three horizontal folds. Some light edge wear small separations at edges of folds not affecting text. Very good. Rare congressional act extending the suspension of trade with France during the so- called "Quasi-War" of the late 1790s and adding a provision allowing the U.S. Navy to inspect and seize American ships that are violating the embargo. This act was approved February 9 1799 and extends the provisions of the law first approved on June 13 1798. It is signed in type at the end by President Adams Vice President Jefferson and Speaker of the House Jonathan Dayton. The Quasi-War was an undeclared conflict between the United States and France during the Adams administration in the late 1790s manifested mostly in naval engagements between the two nations. The war was the outgrowth of deteriorating Franco-American relations which had been weakened earlier in the decade by the Genêt Affair and the XYZ Affair and it wreaked havoc on commerce between the two nations. One of the main weapons wielded by Adams was to ban American commerce from France and French dependencies accomplished by the congressional act of 1798 and extended by the present law. The law forbids American ships from trading with France or with French dependencies including in the West Indies and goes on to bar French commerce and French ships from American ports. Significantly this act goes beyond the provisions of the 1798 law by permitting United States Navy vessels to inspect and potentially seize American vessels that have traded with France or with French dependencies. <br> <br> This broadside format is unusual for the printing of a law and indicates that it was meant to be displayed in ports and customs officers for the attention of ships' masters who may have been unaware of the embargo law or willfully violating it. ESTC locates only three copies at Oxford the British National Archives and the American Antiquarian Society. Rare. EVANS 36522. ESTC W42364. OCLC 80514531. unknown books
1782WRCAM56168Augsburg 1782. Handcolored engraving 11 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches. Some light soiling and tanning. Near fine. Matted. An attractive and well-preserved contemporary print by German engraver Johann Martin Will with delicate hand-coloring depicting the British and French fleets in combat formation during the Battle of the Saintes also known as the Battle of Dominica/Bataille de la Dominique. Britain's victory over the French navy in April 1782 effectively ended French control of the Caribbean. The engraving depicts over eighty ships which are keyed for identification in captions in German below the image. The upper middle ground depicts Rodney's flag ship "Formidable" and two supporting vessels attacking and breaking the French line. Among the many other ships identified are the flagship of the French admiral Comte de Grasse's "Ville de Paris" here identified as "Stadt Paris" as well as Sir Francis Samuel Drake's division Admiral Samuel Hood's division and the Prince George which according to this account broke its main mast while breaking the line. Also depicted is the French fleet's attempt to reestablish the line in which they have little luck as ships were already starting to flee. <br> <br> The battle was named after the Saintes a group of islands between Guadeloupe and Dominica in the West Indies. The year before the French fleet under de Grasse had decisively defeated the British fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake and then blockaded the coast until Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown helping to secure American victory in the Revolution. This time the British fleet soundly defeated the French capturing the flagship and de Grasse the first French admiral in history to be captured by an enemy and inflicting significant causalities. This emboldened the British in the ongoing negotiations with the Americans and French as well as in ongoing conflicts with Spain. The French-American alliance effectively dissolved and Britain reaffirmed its claims on the Newfoundland fisheries and Canada. Further the French and Spanish abandoned their planned invasion of Jamaica focusing instead on protecting their existing holdings. <br> <br> Johann Martin Will 1727-1806 was a prominent engraver and publisher in Augsburg who specialized in producing images for the British and American markets. A most uncommon image of an important naval battle in the West Indies. unknown books
1739606731739. Relates to Events in the Americas Anglo-Spanish War. Cotejo de la Conducta de S.M. Con la de el Rey Britanico Assi en la Acaecido Antes de la Convencion de 14. de Enero de Este Anno de 1739 Como en lo Obrado Despues Hasta la Publicacion de Represalias y Declaracion de Guerra: Con Licencia en Madrid. His Catholick Majesty's Conduct Compared With That of His Britannick Majesty As Well With Regard To What Happened Before the Convention of the 14th of January of This Year 1739 As to What Has Been Done Since Untill the Publication of Reprisals and Declaration of War: Printed by Authority at Madrid by Antonio Marin. London: Printed for T. Cooper 1739. 63 pp. Spanish text with English translation on facing leaves. Octavo 8" x 5". Later quarter morocco over textured paper boards gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to joints corners lightly bumped hinges just starting at ends. Discoloration to free endpapers light toning to text somewhat heavier in a few places. Early owner signature Eyre to head of title page interior otherwise clean. $1250. Only edition. A legalistic analysis of Spanish claims advanced during the Anglo-Spanish War 1739-1748. Also known as the War of Jenkins' Ear after the conflict's flashpoint it related to Great Britain's exclusive right granted by the Treaty of Utrecht at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession 1713 to ply the slave trade and sell other goods in Spain's American colonies. This war was eventually subsumed into the War of the Austrian Succession 1742-1748. The signature in this copy may be that of Sir James Eyre 1734-1799 the notable judge later chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Sabin A Dictionary of Books Relating to America 17026. unknown books
1740WRCAM43159London 1740. Engraving with hand-coloring 14 x 8 3/4 inches. Minor soiling. Color quite bright and fresh. Very good. A satire against French Cardinal Fleury Chief Minister to Louis XV published during the frenzy of celebrations over Admiral Vernon's victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Porto Bello - an enthusiasm which the Cardinal apparently did not share. Fleury was an ally of Robert Walpole whose power was in decline and had reluctantly agreed to hostilities with Spain. Fleury is seen here seated reaching out toward a medallion of Admiral Vernon and holding a scroll which reads "His iron will get ye better of my gold" and "G-d he'll take all our acquisitions in America." On the wall behind him are several small crude illustrations one of which appears to be a portly Walpole hanging from a gallows above the slogan "No matter if he is longer than ye gallows." A head sits atop a pole perhaps alluding to the fact that many people would be pleased to see Walpole's head positioned thus. Engraved by George Bickham. Only one copy located in OCLC at Northwestern University. BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOG 2454. OCLC 43946235. unknown books
1756WRCAM35228London: Printed for S. Bladon 1756. 68pp. Dbd. Very good. "Remonstrance addressed to London merchants against imprisoning of British traders on the Ohio" - Howes. We believe this to be the first edition first issue differentiated by having the price "one-shilling" printed on the bottom of the titlepage. The second issue is from the same setting of type but with "Second edition" on the titlepage. Bladon also published a forty-two-page edition priced six-pence. Such compact cheaper editions are almost invariably later ones. HOWES C668 "aa." SABIN 15207. KRESS 5501. THOMSON 265. Printed for S. Bladon unknown books
1757WRCAM9300AAnnapolis: Jonas Green 1757. 213pp. Contemporary plain front wrapper rear wrapper renewed. Small ink library stamp on verso of titlepage tape repairs to edges of each leaf mostly small and inconsequential minor foxing. Very good. In a black cloth slipcase. A rare Annapolis imprint comprising the session laws for Maryland in early 1757. In the midst of the French and Indian War naturally there is significant content related to the war. Namely there are three acts: "An Act for his Majesty's Service and the more immediate Defence and Protection of the Frontier Inhabitants of this Province" encompassing the first four-and-a-half pages "An Act for the Relief of sundry Inhabitants of this Province who have had their Servants Enlisted into his Majesty's Servants" and "An Act to prevent the Exportation or Carrying out of this Province Ammunition Warlike Stores or Provisions of any Kind towards supplying the French or their Allies." The first of these acts calls for the raising of 500 men to be organized into companies to protect the frontier and for the manner of their deployment and use. Most of the others laws are continuing acts relating to slaves "languishing Prisoners" debtors and other issues. Rare with ESTC recording only three copies in two institutions AAS has two. EVANS 7935. WROTH 197. ESTC W7081. Jonas Green hardcover books
179464027Columbia SC 1794. Partly printed document completed in manuscript 11 1/8 x 15 1/2 inches describing the parcel of land; attached to that document with a cloth tie is another partly printed document completed in manuscript and signed by the Surveyor General of South Carolina Francis Bremar September 10 1794 and countersigned by the Deputy Surveyor William Sims and with a manuscript map of the parcel of land on the top half of the document. Accompanying the two documents each of which has docketing on the verso is the original clay state seal though worn cracked and in three pieces. The verso of the land survey document bears the signature "Col. Wade Hampton Jr." Offset from the seal but complete with the manuscript map and clay seal. Both documents folded some breaks along a central fold taking a bit of several letters but not affecting the sense. 10515. Moultrie began his military career in the Anglo-Cherokee War of 1761; as colonel and commander of the 2nd S.C. Regiment in 1776 he successfully defended the fort named for him which was located at the entrance of Charleston Harbor from attack by a British fleet delaying British occupation of that city by four years. Bremar served as Deputy Surveyor General of S.C. in the 1760s and was named Surveyor General in 1788. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1766WRCAM47802Paris 1766. 2220pp. plus large folding map. Large folio. Stitched. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good. Defense of the Comte de Lally for his actions in India during the Seven Years' War. This is one of two versions authored by him. Lally head of the French expedition to India reached Pondichery in 1758. Though capable he was incredibly unpopular and fell into a series of events which proved fatal to his career and his person. He was unsuccessful in the Siege of Madras beaten at the Battle of Wandiwash and eventually capitulated from the siege of Pondichery. Taken prisoner by the British he returned to France on parole and was imprisoned for two years before being put on trial and executed. This is his last defence published shortly thereafter or perhaps immediately preceding. A publisher's note is dated April 14 and Lally was executed May 6. The map shows the Indian subcontinent and Madagascar. unknown books
176136901London: Chez D. Wilson T. Beckett & P. A. DeHondt 1761. First English edition. Pp. 2 60. Wanting half-title. 1 vols. 4to. Calf-backed marbled boards spine lettered in gilt. Some rubbing stitchmarks some light discoloration. Ink notation concerning first edition on title else very good. Provenance: John Carter Brown armorial bookplate with deaccessioned stamp on the bookplate and ink stamp on verso of title. First English edition. Pp. 2 60. Wanting half-title. 1 vols. 4to. Choiseul's narrative and commentary with the state diplomatic correspondence and papers relating to the treaty of 1762 dealing primarily with the areas of the cession of Canada the fisheries of Newfoundland Cape Breton and the West Indies and the limitation of Louisiana. Sometimes attributed to Jean François de Bastide. The London edition is considerably more scarce than the French first edition published the same year. Goldsmith's Kress 9718; Sabin 47516; Howes M-507 Chez D. Wilson, T. Beckett & P. A. DeHondt unknown books
1757WRCAM51214Kittery Me 1757. Broadside 12 x 7 1/2 inches. Old folds mild toning. Very good. In frame. Appears to be docketed on verso but not examined outside frame. A manuscript roll-call for a company of Maine military personnel organized to participate in the French and Indian War. The document lists over seventy names of regulars in two columns plus an additional dozen names under "The Alarm List" essentially a reserve list of soldiers appointed to defend the homefront. Below the Alarm List is the following text: "The above is a True & Perfect list of all the soldiers in the Train'd band & Alarm List from sixteen years old to sixty as far as has come to my knowledge. Attest Daniel Emery jun. Clerk und. Oath." The Emery family supplied seven members of this list of officers and soldiers with others such as the Furbush Ferguson and Wamouth families also providing more than one man for the army. Several names are crossed out about half of which belong to a family supplying more than one member to the list. Most of the men on the Alarm List are also identified by profession such as deacon miller or sailor among others. Such lists of colonial American military personnel for the French and Indian War are exceedingly rare in the market. An important colonial Maine and military document. unknown books
1783303187Minorca 1783. Two single sheets. Folio. Very good copies a little toned old folds. Two single sheets. Folio. Signed in full by every officer. The first is titled: "No. 26 Pay List for additional Subsistence etc to the officers in st. Philips Castle from 25 Dec. 1781 to 23 Feb. 1782." The second has written on the verso: " No. 136 Pay List to make up Subs. to Brevet Officer etc equal to the Rank where in they respectively serve in The Garrison of Fort St. Philips during the Siege Decemb. 24 1781 - Dollars 4350-50." These two officer pay lists are signed by each of the 36 and 44 listed officers. They're a wonderful souvenir of the siege and with a sample of every officer's signature a valuable source for further research. <br/><br/>The five month Siege of Minorca August 19 1781 - February 5 1782 was a vital victory over England in the European theatre of the Revolutionary War. Throughout most of the eighteenth century English possession of the island was of real strategic importance from its deep-water harbor the Royal Navy could launch attacks against the Mediterranean fleets of Spain France and Italy. unknown books
175623894London: Printed for M. Cooper at the Globe 1756. Small octavo. 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches. 100pp. Blindstamp to title and G4 library ink stamp to the verso of the title and p. 48. 20th-century half calf over marbled paper-covered boards rubbed marks from old library label on upper cover.<br/> <br/>The first edition of a scarce but important critical commentary on the British government's handling of the French and Indian war.<br/> <br/>This work relates "to the inefficient conduct of the ministry in the disputes with France especially in America on the Ohio and elsewhere under Washington Braddock etc. For this and later publications Shebbeare was fined and put in the pillory. A change of government brought him a change of sentiment and a pension" Sabin.<br/> <br/>Howes S366; Sabin 80038; ESTC T75830. Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe unknown books
177921556.07Philadelphia PA 1779. No binding. Fine. Pennsylvania Packet or General Advertiser. Newspaper. Pennsylvania Packet or General Advertiser. John Dunlap Philadelphia Pa. July 1 1779. 4 pp. 10 1/2 x 17 untrimmed. Page 1-2 leads with extracts from the Journals of Congress regarding Indian Affairs and New Hampshire land disputes. Extensive content on the Revolutionary War medical department including a lengthy serialized ""Doctor Morgan's Vindication"" regarding the Continental Congress's dismissal of Dr. John Morgan who had great success managing military hospitals for Washington's Army without cause or explanation. Here he obtains testimony from General Nathanael Greene and even Washington himself to defend his reputation.Page 3 reports war news from Pennsylvania as well as a June 29 1779 act of the Continental Congress borrowing $20 million to maintain fiscal solvency.Page 4 includes advertisements for runaway slaves book auctions and stolen horses.Excerpt ""IN CONGRESS June 29 1779.AS Congress are bound by every motive of policy and of public & private justice to maintain the credit of the paper money emitted by their authority on the faith of the United States; so it is their intention not only to avoid further emissions but to diminish the quantity in circulation provided that the respective States by correspondent and vigorous exertions shall put it in their power to raise the necessary supplies.Resolved therefore That twenty millions of Dollars or such a part thereof as shall be brought into the Continental Loan-Offices on or before the first day of October next be borrowed on the faith of the United States at an interest of six per cent. per annum.For facilitating the said Loan Resolved1. That the Loan-Officers in every state do immediately open subscriptions for the said Loan. 2. That the executive authorities of the several states be requested immediately to appoint persons of character and influence in every county town or district to receive subscriptions and transmit the same to the Loan-Officer or Officers in the states respectively. 3. That no subscription be received for less then five hundred dollars. 4. That all subscriptions under ten thousand dollars shall be paid into the Loan-Office where the same shall be subscribed or into the Hands of the person obtaining the subscription within fourteen days after the subscription shall be made. 5. That any person subscribing ten thousand dollars or upwards shall be allowed to pay the same at two periods to wit one half within fourteen days after the subscription the residue on or before the first day of October next; the whole to bear interest from the time of the first payment provided the other payment shall be punctually made. 6. That each lender shall have his election either to receive the principal at the expiration of three years from the date of the Loan or to continue it in the funds on interest until the whole amount of Continental bills in circulation shall not exceed the sum in circulation at the time of the Loan. 7. That interest on all sums which shall be paid into the Loan-Office before the said first day of October or which shall be subscribed and paid agreeably to the terms of the 5th resolution aforesaid shall be payable annually at the Continental Loan-Office of the State in which the money was originally subscribed. 8. That when the interest on Monies which have been or may be placed in the several Loan-Offices on or after the first day of March 1778 shall become due and be paid the same until some more accurate standard of value can be devised shall be increased in proportion to the increase of the sum of Continental paper money which may be in circulation after the date of such Loans respectively.Extract from the MinutesCHARLES THOMSON Sec'ry."" unknown books
1766WRCAM47801Paris 1766. 51pp. Large folio. Stitched. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good. Defense of the Comte de Lally for his actions in India during the Seven Years' War. This is one of two versions authored by him. Lally head of the French expedition to India reached Pondichery in 1758. Though capable he was extremely unpopular and fell into a series of events which proved fatal to his career and his person. He was unsuccessful in the Siege of Madras and beaten at the Battle of Wandiwash and eventually capitulated from the siege of Pondichery. Taken prisoner by the British he returned to France on parole and was imprisoned for two years before being put on trial and executed. This is his last defence published shortly thereafter or perhaps immediately preceding a publisher's note is dated April 14 and Lally was executed May 6. unknown books
