Sale 1090 — United States, Possessions and Confederate States Stamps and Postal History

Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 17-19 December, 2014

Category — Colonial Period

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1989
c
Sale 1090, Lot 1989, Colonial Period(Worcester Mass.) 1746 Order from Commander of Worcester County Militia. Small folded letter from Col. John Chandler at Worcester Mass. to Capt. Nathaniel Green at Leicester with "On His Majt. Service" endorsement, dated July 15, 1746, ordering Capt. Green "to Impress two able bodied Effective men well armed out of the Company under your Command and send them to myself at Worcester...", slightly toned, Very Fine, a rare military letter from British colonial militia in America during the Anglo-French War of 1744-46, when the French planned to invade Great Britain and the colonists in America also feared invasion, those fears became a reality ten years later during the French and Indian War, ex Alexander

E. 500-750
400