November 7-8, 2018 Edged Weapons, Armor, & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/7/2018
"A List of the Sixth Company of the Second New York Regt. Present May 12th. 1779", ADS, 2 pp., quarto, listing by name 6 non-coms, 2 field music, and 26 privates; on recto is a note written and signed at Fort Penn by the company commander, Captain Jacob Wright, acknowledging that he had "Received of Colo. Philip Cortlandt the Sum of one hundred and Seventy pounds being a gratuity allowed the within men ...as per Act of Assembly passed the 13th Day of March 1779." The site of Fort Penn is in present-day Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania and was a stockade constructed in 1776 to protect Northumberland County inhabitants from Indian threats.
With a hand-colored engraving of the c. 1757 uniform of the Regiment d'Infanterie from a period publication (quarto, water-staining across lower third) and a 1744 invoice written in Dutch for goods purchased on the West Indies island of Curacao, 1 page, quarto. From the Walter O'Connor collection.
Item Dimensions: 14" x 11 - 1/2".