November 7-8, 2018 Edged Weapons, Armor, & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/7/2018
Lot contains: A) FRASER, John (1721-1773), autograph document signed, 2 page, partially-printed court authorization to the Sheriff of Bedford County to seize property of one Philip Jacob Cresier to the amount of six pounds to discharge a debt owed him to Edward Armstrong, including court and sheriff's costs of discharging such. The writ was issued by John Fraser as Justice of the Peace (1771-1773), dated Bedford, 16 January 1773. Fraser (also spelled Frasier) was a Scot Highlander who was working as a trader and frontier gunsmith in Venango in 1753, relocating to Cumberland, Virginia the following year and eventually to Bedford in 1759, where he continued to ply his trade, until his death in April 1773. B) KEARNY, Joshua, autograph document signed, 3 x 8 inches, 2 pp., account of work done for Colonel Thomas Turner, including "drilling one gun" in 1786 for 1 shilling and three pence and in 1787, for "Stocking one gun" at 15 shillings and "drilling the same for 1 shilling and 3 pence. On recto is annotated "R[eceipt] No. 26 Accompt against Colo Turners Estate". From the Walter O'Connor collection.