Two autograph letters signed from Jonathan Clap to his brother Nathaniel

by Johnathan Clap

$12,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Signed

Dorchester, Mass. : 1708. Both 8½ x 7¾ , approx. 310 and 350 words respectively exclusive of the shorthand notes - see below ; from Jonathan Clap of Dorchester MA to his brother Nathaniel, then a minister in Newport, RI. Also, a single leaf of short hand approx. 33 lines, measuring 13 x 8 , signed N. Clap and dated 1728. In the first letter, dated August 8th, 1708, he writes of conditions at the farm: god frown on us in respect of the dryness of the season the grass is

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