Lot 109
Early Document Referring to British Purchase of Brown Besses. Partly-printed Document Signed "Will: Evans" as Lt. Gen., one page, 7¾ x 11¾ in., June 13, 1734. An indenture between John, Duke of Argyll, Master General of His Majesty's Ordnance and Evans, by which Evans acknowledges receipt of 60 Land Service Muskets with brass furniture, 60 bayonets, and 60 pistols with brass furniture "to Arm the Additional Men to His Regiment of Dragoons now Ordered to be rais'd."
The first model British Brown Bess musket was adopted in the early 1730s, making this one of the earliest documents referring to the Brown Bess. The Land Service musket, called Brown Bess, was used for over 100 years during the expansion of the British Empire, having tremendous symbolic, as well as physical, importance. General Evans came to prominence when he served in Flanders during the War of the Spanish Succession and acquired a regiment of dragoons. He was promoted to Lt. Gen. in 1727.
Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000.
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