Holograph Revolutionary War Document Paying Abner Smith for Turpentine for the Captured Sloop Dolphin. 1778

by SMITH, Jasper

$350 · Offered by Between the Covers

Norwich, [Connecticut]: May 15, 1778. Unbound. Approximately 8.5" x 4". Laid paper. Old folds, near fine. A payment document giving Jasper Smith Two Pounds for five gallons of turpentine to pay the Connecticut state sloop *Dolphin*, a boat captured from the British in November of 1777 and sold to the..... More

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