1761. RARE 1761 Maritime Charter and Ship's Passage from Port of Roanoke and Bound for Boston. Dated 25th December 1761. Signed by Abner Holmes (Master of the ship Tryall), John Vann of Edenton, NC and William Johnson. Partially printed document, filled out in manuscript. SCARCE example. Measures approx. 7-1/2" x......
1771. 4 pp. Original Colonial era newspaper from England that contains an account of the Battle of the Regulators in which Royal Governor William Tryon led troops loyal to King George III against North Carolina patriots. Uncommon and quite scarce.
1773. King George III (Kingdom of Ireland) Commission appointing Henry Sixsmith “one of the Boatmen and Waiters, for taking Account of all the Goods and Merchandize, to be Unladen out, or Landen on Board of any Ship or Vessel, either Inwards or Outwards, in any Port or Place within this.....
1776. The Edinburgh Evening Courant Newspaper, June 8, 1776. Published: June 8, 1776. 4 pp. Original Revolutionary War era newspaper from Edinburgh that contains a first hand account of the Battle of Moore's Creek by Col. Richard Caswell. Also, a report by General George Washington announcing the.....
North Carolina: 1778. North Carolina Land Grant signed by Richard Caswell granting “unto Ezekial Watson a Tract of Land, containing [two hundred] Acres, lying and being in our County of Duplin” dated at Kingston 17 December 1778 – with survey plat and description - Recorded 12 May 1780. Partial loss.....
South Carolina: 1793. RARE 1793 South Carolina Land Grant signed by Governor William Moultrie. Includes the land survey. Beautiful document, perfect for framing! Columbia? Anon, 1793. Folio, letterpress completed in manuscript on laid paper with a smaller manuscript sheet containing a plat map and surveyor general’s certification, leaves.....
Halifax, North Carolina: 1796. RARE 1796 Halifax North Carolina Pay Voucher, dated 1st January 1796 from John Sitgreaves to Allen Jones. Allen Jones, colonial and state official and Revolutionary War officer (1739-1807). He was clerk of Superior Court for the Halifax district and from 1773 to 1775 represented Northampton.....
1797. ALS – Letter of Josiah Collins, postdated Edenton, 4 October 1797 regarding the visit of a friend.
Raleigh, North Carolina: 1803. [NORTH CAROLINA]. [BROADSIDE]. Raleigh, December 1, 1803. / Sir, / Feeling it to be our duty to furnish our Constituents, from time to / time, with such information respecting the proceedings of the General Assembly, as / we deem important; and an opportunity now offering itself.....
1809. “William Allens Grant for 74 Acres” “Recorded in Grant Book 6 ….” signed by “John Drayton”, Governor of South Carolina during his 2nd term, dated 24 April 1809, certifying for William Allen a tract of land containing 24 acres, 20 September [?] in the District of Lancaster; including a......
1812. Joseph COWAN/COWEN was born in 1753 in COWAN's FORD, NC, and died October 30, 1835 in NC. The battle was fierce on June 20, 1780, when a group of Whig Militia met some 1300 local Tories from the Lincoln County area at Ramsour's Mill on Clark's Creek near the.....
1819. Document commissioning John Kelly Ensign of the German Fusiliers, company attached to 29th Regiment , 7th Brigade, signed John Geddes, 23 August 1819, issued in Orders 24th August 1819. Document is adhered to a modern light corrugate backing. John Geddes (December 25, 1777 – March 4, 1828) was.....
1822. 1822 Manuscript: Fundamental Rules of the New Troop of Rocky River Cavalry. Manuscript. Approx. 8.25" x 6.5". 7 leaves. Writing on 6 sides of the paper. 11 names signed at the end of the rules (2 were identified as American Revolution Veterans who fought at Kings Mountain). Edge.....
1824. South Carolina Land Grant dated 2 August 1824 for 703 acres of land granted to Johnathan Ward and signed “John L Wilson” [John Lyde Wilson]. John Lyde Wilson (May 24, 1784 – February 12, 1849) was the 49th Governor of South Carolina from 1822 to 1824 and an.....
1825. State of North Carolina commission of Robert Tate as Major of the 1st Regiment of Militia of the County of Burke dated at Raleigh 21 December 1825 and signed by Hutchins G. Burton. Vintage original document.
1829. Letter on State of South Carolina letterhead, dated 6 August 1829, signed by Stephen Decatur Miller certifying Henry W. Saussure as Chancellor of the State and one of the presiding Judges of the Court of Equity, District of Richland as well as of all the other districts of the.....
1830. North Carolina Land Grant dated at Raleigh 21 December 1830 and recorded 10 March 1833 granting to Henry Allison fifty acres of land in the County of Burke lying on Newburg’s Fork Waters of the Catawba River signed by Montfort Stokes. SCARCE.
1834. Autograph Letter Signed "M. M. Clark Lt & Asst Qr Master U.S.A.," Savannah, Georgia, May 19, 1834, one page, quarto, reading, in part: "...Will you be so good as to send each of us an Artillery sword of the new pattern. The amount will be forwarded as soon as.....
1835. North Carolina Land Grant signed by D.L. Swain, dated 4 December 1835 and recorded 23 December 1836 granting to George Frazer fourteen acres of land in Randolph County on the waters of Reed Creek with survey attached with pressed seal and dated 7 February 1835 and signed by Jesse.....
1845. Hand written letter, Cherokee Agency, 3 June 1845, to Balie Peyton, signed by Pierce Butler.
1853. ALS – Handwritten letter signed by R.H. Northrup, New York, 27 April 1853, to Dr. Collett Leventhorpe, Pioneer Mills, Cabarrus County, North Carolina; presumably the later confederate General, concerning gold mining __with envelope.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: T.M. Scroggy, 1855. "I'm Off for Charleston", Negro Minstrel Song Sheet Broadside Published by T.M. Scroggy, Philadelphia, 1855. Broadside, 8-1/8" x 6- 1/8," text only, being 5 quatrains and chorus, within an ornamental border. Minstrel song in dialect. Nice condition. SCARCE.
1861. North Carolina Military Commission signed by John W. Ellis, 15 June 1861 to John W. Taylor appointing him Captain of Volunteer Company Chatham Riflemen,
Charleston, South Carolina: Printed by Evans & Cogswell, 1861. Journal of the Convention of 1860-'61. Wednesday, March 27, 1861. 12 pp. Proceedings of South Carolina’s secession convention issued only to the members of the convention. Concerns the secession of other states, General G. T. Beauregard’s proposed defense of Charleston.....
New Haven, Connecticut: J.H. Benham, 1861. Hardcover in original binding with printed paper-wrapped boards. Civil War era. LOTS of period advertisements throughout. A wealth of information!