Sales of Twenty three planks Mahogany rec’d of the Unity , Robert Norris Master from Jamaica , acct. of Mr Benedict Arnold Merchant New Haven…

by W. Wallace

$950 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Liverpool, 2 August 1771. 1 p. manuscript in ink, 8” x 7.25”, tissue reinforcement to verso of left margin, tipped onto single leaf, 12.25” x 8.75”, bearing typed notes by a later owner. The whole tipped onto black bifolium with typed title piece: “Benedict Arnold as a Lumber Merchant Year 1771.” Later pencil annotation to the document in the lower-left corner. CONDITION: Good+, several tears most repaired , some spotting

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