Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 24

Manuscript and Collectibles Auction

Documents-U.S. War of 1812

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 502		Washington's Last Slave Dies. The Daily Journal, Wilmington, NC, 22½ x 16½ inches, 4 pp. Page 2 announces: "Death of the Last of General Washington's Slaves. Old uncle Maurice Jasper…died at the residence of Mr. Frank Tiplett, near Mount Vernon…. He was the last one of the slaves emancipated by General Washington, and was sixteen years old when his master died. His father and mother came directly from Africa, and are well remembered by some of the oldest residents in the vicinity…." Jasper's death was reported because of his association with Washington. Small area of paper loss in masthead, not affecting report. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 503		William Angus. George Washington. Scarce 1785 copper-plate engraving by Angus of General George Washington, "Published Sepr. 23, 1785, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row," 7¼ x 4 5/8 inches. A waist-up portrait of Washington in uniform, in a Napoleonic pose. Pictured inside a circle on a pedestal with "Gen. Washington" on it. Light toning, else Fine. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $86
Lot 504		The American Weekly Messenger, Or Register Of State Papers, History And Politics. For 1814-15. Vol. II, Philadephia, printed for John Conrad, 408 pages plus index. Bound volume, 10 x 6¼ in. Numerous official war accounts, includingthe battlels of Chippewa, Bladensburg, Horseshoe Bend, Fort Erie, La Cole, Sackett's harbour; capture of the U.S. Frigate Essex; Gen. Hull's trial; burning and capture of Washington, D.C.; naval encounters; and much more. Boards are worn with loose paper covering; contents sound. Overall Very Good. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 505		Governor's Orders For Rhode Island Volunteers In The Mexican War. Contemporary copy of "Special Orders No. 1," Head Quarters, R.I. Militia, Providence, February 3, 1847, 3 pp., 10 x 8 in. Listing regulations and directions to be followed by citizens of Rhode Island "who intend to volunteer their services to the General Government in the existing war with Mexico…." Volunteers are "subject to all the liabilities & duties of members of volunteer companies…until they are mustered into the service of the United States…. Secretarial signatures for Governor Byron Diman and Adjutant General T.E. Jenckes. Nice Mexican War content. Fine. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 506		Journal of the United States Senate, Second Session, Sixth Congress 1800. "Begun and Held At The City Of Washington, November 17th, 1800…" Printed by Way and Groff, Washington, 1800. Exceptionally rare record of the second session of the Sixth Congress. This journal covers all of the bills and acts, such as "Act to receive and continue in force…the relief and protection of American Seamen"; a January 5, 1801 "act to erect a Mausoleum for George Washington"; and a January 23, 1801 "petition in the Indiana Territory…in regard to the gradual abolition of Slavery and the extinction of certain Indian titles…." Outstanding in this record is the February 11th vote of the Electoral College, showing in a diagrammed representation the tie vote between Thomas Jefferson of Virginia and Aaron Burr of New York. This tie was broken in favor of Jefferson by the political influence of Alexander Hamilton, who was subsequently killed in a duel by Burr in 1804. Also included is the complete text of Jefferson's Inaugural Speech and a record of the administration of the Presidential Oath of Office on March 4, 1801. Original blue-black board covers with leather spine, worn and rubbed. Book size is 8¼ x 5 in., 149 pp with 11-page index. Owner's penned signature, "Robert Brown." Page 89 has a 1¾ in. tear in bottom margin. Internally bright and clean, with light overall toning. Extremely fine and rare. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 507		Northern Liberties Fire Company No. 1 Meeting Book. A voluminous book of over 500 handwritten pages, being the meetings record book of the famous Philadelphia "Northern Liberties Fire Company No. 1," a historic company founded May 1, 1756. This book covers June 7, 1842-June 17, 1853. Brown leather over original paper boards, with separation at the spine ends; light internal spotting, but overall very fine and easy to read. These pages include references to the fires that had to be extinguished because of the terrible "Know-Nothing," anti-Irish immigration riots in Philadelphia in the 1840s. The first part of the book contains the Constitution of the fire company, a complete list of names and addresses of members, and a secondary list, signed in their own handwriting; also, the names and addresses of the actual fire fighters of the company, listing 222 members. Numerous, fascinating entries, including printed, paper inserts. One pen entry discusses the grand parades that were held by the different fire companies of the city. The most fascinating entry, dated January 6, 1852, is quoted from a Boston newspaper report of The Northern Liberties Fire Company's visit to Boston. It describes the beautiful fire engine: "The Engine which this company beings is entirely new and is a most magnificent specimen of Philadelphia mechanism. It was housed last Saturday. Its main material is black polished wood literally overlaid with gold, silver and bronze ornaments and is said to have cost $4,000.00. It is large, as is usual with Philadelphia Engines, has its chambers and works in a square upright case in the center. On the top of this are four silver plates supported at the corners by four golden Eagles--the side plates bearing the inscription "Northern Liberty" and the rear plates 'Not theory But Practice.' Beneath each plate is a niche of silver…which stands a figure of Liberty, holding in her right hand the cap and staff of Libery, her left arm supports a medallion portrait of Washington….On the rear is a female figure with her arm around an Eagle the emblem of America, and on the front a magnificent painting of 'French Liberty'…." The rest of the description goes on for four more pages, covering the visit of the Fire Company to Boston. A wonderful, one-of-a-kind Fire Company book. Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 508		Northern Liberty Fire Company's Tresurer's Book, 1784-1819. A Philadelphia fire company's book, 8½ x 8 in, with entries on 47 pages, written from both sides toward the center, with the central pages being blank. Entries include members' dues, listing names, with amounts in pounds until 1803, then in dollars. Expenses include: "To 50 feet of cedar bords to cover the fire lathers," on November 2, 1784, and a May 12, 1788 entry of Levi Budd, "Eleven Shillings & Nine Pence Ballance Due for painting of the Fier Engine for The Northern Liberty Fier Comp'n," signed by John Wells. Boards are present but detached. Interior is tight, with nice, dark pen entries; overall toning and foxing. The Northern Liberty was founded in 1747. This and other early American fire companies were independent associations that divided profits from their efforts in extinguishing fires in the city. A unique and interesting piece of early fire-fighting memorabilia. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 509		Seventeen Issues of the New York Evening Post. Lot of seventeen different issues, all with War of 1812 dates. Four copies are from the month of September 1813, twelve from December 1813, and one from June 3, 1814, all 4 pages, 19½ x 13 in. Each issue is replete with news articles about the war, British ships captured by the American Navy, and our attack upon Canada. Also, stories about American privateers mentioning a British admiralty court case: "Charles Coanolly, a native of Ireland stood indicted for having piraticly sailed in a privateer called the 'True Bloodied Yankee' under color of an American commission on the high seas, where they aided, assisted and comforted divers armed men in the capture of vessels pertaining to the Sovereign subjects of England." Die-cut coach ads, theater announcements, ship sailings, and all the goings-on in our New Republic. Papers all printed on rag paper with yellowish tint. Previously bound, having edge tattering at spine. Fine to Very Fine. (17 issues). Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 510		Virginia's First Families Recommend A Naval Appointment. A one-page manuscript letter from Fairfax County, Virginia, April 15, 1825, 9 x 8 in. Being a recommendation for a naval appointment for Bushrod Washington Hunter, signed by eight men, including John C. Hunter, Mordecai C. Fitzhugh, R.C. Mason, and Albert Fairfax. In part: "Mr. Bushrod Washington Hunter, being anxious to obtain a warrant in the United States Navy and believing that a recommendation from his immediate and most intimate neighbours will promote his wishes, we therefore cheerfully express our sentiments…have known him from early infancy…his turn of mind seems to point to the Ocean as the proper element for a display of his natural genius….he is the son of a gentleman who in the Revolutionary War bravely and volunarily fought in his Country's cause…We fondly trust that the scion will not disgrace the memory of the parent…." Some chipping at right edge, and minor fold splits, else Fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 511		Whaling Correspondence From The Ship Delphos. A collection of 14 folded letters, written between 1841-50. Thirteen letters are written by or to Benjamin Cutter, the 16-year-old son of a Woburn, Mass. doctor, who sailed on what would be the sixth and final voyage of the Delphos, a vessel of 338 tons, owner Thomas Bradley, Captain West in command. Six whaling letters give a detailed story of the complete voyage of the Delphos until she was shipwrecked on Palmerston Island in the Pacific in 1846. These letters are headed, and postmarked, : Western Islands (Boston SHIP 7); off New Holland (New Bedford SHIP 7); On Board Ship Delphos (80 miles from Maui) (New York SHIP 7 Cts.); At Sea (enroute to Hawaii) (Boston SHIP 7); Ship Alert (bound for New Zealand) (New London, Conn., SHIP 7); and Auckland, New Zealand (New Bedford SHIP 7). There are four family letters from Ben's parents, "to be left for him at Lahaina, Maui, Sandwich Islands" or at Honolulu. The other four letters are: from Ben, then a student at Amherst, to his brother Ephraim; from Joseph Marshall to Dr. Cutter, inquiring about a sailor; from Dr. Cutter to Ephraim at Yale; and a final letter from Ben to his parents in 1850 about the California Gold Rush and his plans to go to Oregon. Ben's life would be cut short; in 1852, at the age of 23, he died of typhoid fever in Pennsylvania. The letters are housed in a looseleaf notebook; each letter has been transcribed and there is a synopsis of the 14 letters. There is also information on the ship Delphos, from History of the American Whale Fishery, by Alexander Starbuck. From this, we know that the first five voyages of the Delphos brought in a total of 1,530 barrels of sperm oil, 9,370 barrels of whale oil, and 38, 600 pounds of whale bone; the cargo from the sixth voyage was lost in the shipwreck. Following are a few excerpts from Ben's letters: (9/12/1845) "I never worked so hard in my life…raised a school of about half dozen of sperm whales…next day we commenced to hoist the blubber in…then commenced to get the oil out of his head…I have wished sometimes that you could see me down in the blubber room, cutting up…the dirtiest & greasiest place …up to knees in the blubber …I had to…lay down in the grease so as to get the pieces out…. On Jan. 16, 1846, Ben gives a lengthy description of his initiation for crossing the equator, an ancient maritime tradition, including being tied and blindfolded, interrogated by "King Neptune," given a beard and whiskers made of Indian meal and salt water, dunked in the deck tub, etc.; then, "came within 25 miles of the Tristan d'Acanhee Island…killing…seven right whales & losing two…The crew…I do not like …they are almost all the time trying to kick up a row with some of us…but as for the Capt…one of the best…." (4/16/'46) " …we set sail for Otahuite (Tahiti)…a paradise on earth. I should be content to stay all my lifetime if it was not for the Franchman…we made sail for Maui, having on board from 12 to 15,000 oranges…I was coming down the fore rigging from mast head when I stepped upon an iron (that is, a harpoon)…& cut in about half way through my foot…so far we have the very best luck in whaling, having taken 417 right whale, 294 sperm & 12 black fish…." On Sept. 7, Ben tells his parents the ship is lucky for being out such a short time and no one hurt or loss, then on Nov. 23, he provides a detailed account of their ship wreck, the Delphos breaking up on a reef, being a castaway on Palmerston Island for 11 days, then being picked up by the ship Alert, which was taking them to New Zealand. "…I jumped out of my bunk…when the ship struck…I started on deck in my shirt tails, & what a sight…the breakers on one side, running mountains high…the reef on the other side…& together with the rolling of the ship & shoutings of the men, was a scene I do not wish to see again. In about 10 minutes the ship fell on her beam ends & parted, the ship's company clinging to her side with starvation staring us in our face, no land (as yet) in sight, expecting every minute to be dashed upon the rocks by the waves….we were all saved except two…." A remarkable, well-written whaling correspondence, full of thrills and drama. Estimated Value $3,500 - 5,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 512		(Rare 1822 North Carolina Illustrated Military Document). Partly-printed document with three woodcut engravings of uniformed soldiers at top, 1 page, 8 x 7 inches. Informing Mr. John H. Bryan, of the Newbern Guards, of sums to be paid for two separate instances: "by a Company Court Martial …for non-attending a company muster." and "for appearing on parade at a company muster…in pantaloons other than blue contrary to the Regulations of the Company…." Capt. T.A. Pasteur signs in receipt of the $2.50 fine. Partial fold separations with negligible paper loss, repaired with old tape on verso which shows through on recto. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 513		Civil War Broadside Announcing Military Parades. Broadside titled, "MILITARY PARADES!" for Company 7, 24th Regiment of New York State Reserve Militia, August 18, 1862, 1 pg, 12½ x 9¾ in. In part: "…In pursuance of Section 13, of Chapter 477, of the Laws of 1862, I do hereby order and direct that the Reserve Militia, of the first and second classes, in Company District No. 7, of the Twenty-fourth Regiment…Parade for Drill and Inscpection, Armed and Equipped according to law…." It continues with a listing of equipment each man should possess. Signed by the company captain, P.S. Pettit. Black print against mustard-colored paper; a couple of closed edge tears, else Very Good. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $288
Lot 514		Collection of 353 Documents From the "Old South". An incredible, unresearched collection of 352 old southern court documents and receipts dating from the late 1820s to the 1880s. The great majority are from the "Old South," strongly covering the 1830s, 40s, and 50s; it also includes some Civil War-date documents, as well as the Reconstruction era, when many landowners went into debt and subsequent bankruptcy. More than half of the material is from Hinds County, Mississippi, most of the balance being from New Orleans, Louisiana. There is a multiplicity of court-case documents and records of debts due, judgments in orphan cases, and probate records. Most of the documents are hand-written, but still include a good many printed documents from the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, including cotton bale receipts and various probates of wills. This interesting grouping gives a view both of the antebellum South, when King Cotton generated a great amount of wealth, and also of the devastating consequences of the war on the South and its people. Some paper toning throughout. Fine to Very Fine. This group deserves serious research. (352 items). Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,875
Lot 515		Confederate Pay Voucher and Receipt. A voucher for Corporal C.P. Smith of the 1st Florida Battalion, March-July 1862, at $13/month (total $52), 1 pg. 9½ x 8 in. Headed "The Confederate States, Dr." and signed by Smith and Capt. H.T. Messengale, A.Q.M. Pay was received at Atlanta, Sept. 1, 1862. Fine. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 516		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 517		Reprint of The Daily Citizen, Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 2, 1863. A reprint by Renshaw & Jones, Los Angeles, of the famous Vicksburg newspaper printed on wallpaper, with an ad on the verso for "Miller & McGrath / Decorators…Los Angeles…" stating "Keep This as a Memento of the War / It is a Copy of the Last Newspaper Printed on Wall Paper in Vicksburg, Miss., during the Siege…" Probably reprinted within a decade of the end of the war. Mounting traces down one side of verso, light toning, and a cople of marginal tears. Estimated Value $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 518		Withdrawn	Unsold