University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts and Books, 12925, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
January 29, 2025 - January 29, 2025
Page Size: 415 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
234

Religious Tolerance in Early Georgia! Descendants of Salzburger Protestant Refugees Request Charter of Incorporation in 1790

September 25, 1790 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 325.00
235

Arkansas Planter Sells Four Teenaged Slaves to Natchez Slave Traders

April 20, 1844 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 593.75
236

New Orleans Slave Auction Broadside Sadly Includes Families; Among the Best Extant

February 12, 1859 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,500.00
237 Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Re: Slavery "Freedom is down cast" and Kansas Nebraska in 1859

March 16, 1859 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 406.25
238

Incredible Slavery, Kansas, Nebraska Content Letter by Sen. Quitman

March 22, 1856 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 531.25
239 Slaves, 8

Selling Slaves, 8 Letters, 18pp, "act so that the negroes cant get out of the way" - Archive of 1840s Letters CSA Sen. Robert Jamison Jr.

ca. 1843-1848 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
240 Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington Signed Cut, PSA/DNA Graded and Encapsulated

n.d. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 375.00
241 Nicholas Bayard

Dutch Clerk and Future Mayor of Colonial New York City Nicholas Bayard Memorandum

March 17, 1670/71 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,408.00
242 Charles Biddle

Charles Biddle ALS Re: Enemy Privateers, "it would be best to remove the Negroes"

June 21, 1780 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
243

Collection of 10 Colonial Currency from New Jersey and Rhode Island

ca. 1760-1777 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 875.00
244 William Ellery

William Ellery Collects Customs On Slave Ships in Newport, Signed 2x, 1795

ca. 1795 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 350.00
245 Henry Ellis

Henry Ellis 1760 Georgia DS for the Administration of an Augusta Estate

October 13, 1760 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 225.00
246 Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin AES 3 Months Before Start of Constitutional Convention of 1787, PSA NM-MT8

March 2, 1787 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
248 John Hancock

John Hancock 1775 Military Commission, Secretarially Signed as President of Continental Congress

July 1, 1775 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,375.00
249 Francis Hopkinson

Francis Hopkinson Rev. War Dated Bill of Exchange Made Out to Timothy Newell

October 28, 1778 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 2,125.00
250 Henry Light Horse Harry Lee

Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Seeks a Map...For Land Speculation?

November 11, 1802 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,500.00
251 Philip Livingston Sr.

Philip Livingston Sr. ALS "Rum is very cheap at New York" to Henry Van Rensselaer

October 8, 1735 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 812.50
252 Lachlan McIntosh

Lachlan McIntosh ALS to Genl Benjamin Lincoln "moving my Family to some place of safety"

February 15, 1780 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
253 Lewis Morris

Founding Father Lewis Morris Handwritten Address Leaf to Son

n.d. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 437.50
254 Lewis Morris

Lewis Morris Document Signed Twice, Bill for Trip as Presidential Elector

May 12, 1797 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,000.00
255 T. Pickering

T. Pickering, Final Military Operations of the Rev. War From West Point!

December 30, 1783 - January 3rd 1784 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 325.00
256 GA Gov. Jared Irwin

GA Gov. Jared Irwin Signed Land Grant - Shocking Instance of Pine Barrens Speculation!

February 3, 1797 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 384.00
257

Rare 1780 Capt. Lemuel Clap's Company Muster Roll & Pay Roll

ca. May-July 1780 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
258

African American Rev. War Soldier Pay Voucher Signed With His Mark, "X", Rare!

June 1, 1782 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
259 David Grier

David Grier to George Washington, Rev. War Dated Letter Signed from Yorktown

January 24, 1778 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 687.50
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