May 27, 2020 Founders & Patriots
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/27/2020
1) "Old Sermon of Colonial Times"--script style suggests 17th century--incomplete, only pp. 45-46, 51-60 present, octavo; "Very Old Sermon date unknown"--24 pp., octavo, probably mid-18th c.; "Old Catechism, date unknown"--mid 19th c., 50 pp. octavo; typed copy of Eulogy on Gov. Bowdoin from Worcester newspaper of 1790. 2) Receipt to Elijah Brigham by town of Westborough Treasurer James Hawes, dated June 9, 1797, for receipt of "four dollars being One moiety of Two fines Recovered of Timothy Underwood & Thomas Harrington on information of Asa Forbush for their Travelling with their Teams...b[on] the Sabbath day Contrary to a Statute...." 3) "Constitution of the Maternal Association" of Westborough, open to "any member of a Congregational church sustaining the maternal relation." 3 pp. no date, but early 19th c. 4) Marriage bans for Major Robert Goddard of Sutton and Mrs. Sibbel Pennimore of Westborough, signed and dated Sutton, Dec. 17, 1797 by Town Clerk Joseph Hall.; Part of a Sermon delivered in Hanover meeting House Sunday March 23rd 1806 by Dr. Lee" against the fad of revivals. 1 p., folio.; 1816 Constitution and Articles of the "Sister Society", of which "None shall be admitted...but such as maintain a good moral character" and the members of which "are bound to watch over each other in love & to admonish as occasion requires." 4 pp., bifolium, folds, nearly separated at center horizontal fold. 7) "Consolation". original score and words to a hymn in ink, inscribed on recto: "John Aug. Parkman / This from your friend / Abijah Forbush / Upton 22nd 1799", one horizontal, folio sheet; with printed hymn "The Missionary's Call" by Edward Howe, c. 1840. and 8) 'ANTI-MASONIC INTELLIGENCER EXTRA", Vol. 11, No. 41, Hartford, October 5, 1830. 2 pp. 20 x 14 inch format. Rare imprint. JLK
Provenance: by descent in the General Artemas Ward-Elijah Brigham Family until 2012; private collection to present.