Manuscript account book

by John Eills

$8,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Rindge, New Hampshire: 1792-1803. Folio, approx. 100 pages, and many blank leaves at the back; contemporary and likely original full reversed calf; moderate waterstaining throughout, especially in the fore-margins, but the text still mostly legible but with occasional loss of either date or price of service ; the binding is sound. John Eills was an American Revolutionary soldier, born Boxford, MA in 1746 and died in 1803 in Rindge, NH. In 1773 he married Rebecca Page, then of Groton, and

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