University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 72926, Wilton

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 28, 2026 - July 28, 2026
Page Size: 390 items in 16 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
256 Hooper William (1742-1790)

William Hooper Boldest Signature on Nice Document: "Damage...against...our Lord the King"

Salisbury District 1768 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 Unknown
257 Hopkinson Francis (1737-1791)

Declaration Signer Francis Hopkinson Signs Debt Certificate That Passes to American Agent in Martinique

1779 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
258 Jenifer Daniel of Saint Thomas (1723-1790)

Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer War-Dated LS re: British Property

1782 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
259 Livingston Philip (1716-1778)

Philip Livingston Signed "Any man of the least Humanity..." Manuscript Letter

New York 1767 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
260 Fayrweather Thomas; Tyng Edward

Harvard Association! 1731 Family Fight Over Estate of Boston Shopkeeper & Landowner

Boston 1732 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
261 Pickering Timothy

Timothy Pickering Tries to Protect Board of War from Unnecessary Distractions

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1779 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
262 Reed Joseph

Joseph Reed, Soon President of Sup. Exec. Council - No More Making Liquor During Revolutionary War to Save Grain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1778 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
263

1st Big Clash Towards Revolution Weeks Before Boston Massacre, 1769-70 Ledger NY 16th Regiment of Foot Signed 200+ Times by Soldiers Who Opposed American Independence! The Battle of Golden Hill

New York, New York 1769-1770 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Unknown
264 Seymour Thomas;Ellsworth Oliver

Bunker Hill Pay To Company That Defended Boston in "the Late Boston Alarm" One Month After

Hartford, Connecticut 1775 USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
265 Avery John;Perkins Ezra;Hill Alexander;Titcomb Jonathan

Group Lot of Revolutionary War Related Documents

Massachusetts;Connecticut 1775-1830 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
266 Tay Samuel;Livingston Walter;Riddell John;Curson Samuel

1776 Group Lot Including a Soldier's Letter, Receipt for Salt Peter, and a Request to Leave the Colonies

Massachusetts;Connecticut;New York;Virginia;Sint Eustatius 1776 USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
267 Hughes Hugh;Meng Christopher;Wright Joseph

Revolutionary War Document Archive

Connecticut;Virginia 1780-1782 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
268 How Ezekiel

1776 Return Listing Troop Strengths & Officers in Middlesex County Less Than a Month After Independence is Declared!

Sudbury, Massachusetts 1776 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
269 Vail Michael;Burton Josiah

Green Mountain Boys Take Forts Ticonderoga & Crown Point on Lake Champlain

Crown Point, New York;Manchester, Vermont 1775-1776 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
270 Edwards Timothy;Lincoln Benjamin;Harrison Burr;Stewart Charles

Rev. War Group Lot Illustrating Hardships Faced After the Fighting Had Ended

New York;Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;Virginia 1782-1783 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Unknown
271 Seymour Thomas; Root Jesse

1784 Accounting After Rev. War Incl. "granting Freedom of the State to Marquis de Lafayette" & Protecting the Western Frontier

Hartford 1784 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Unknown
272 Ellsworth Oliver

O. Ellsworth 1775 Signed Early Rev. War Pay Order For "Riflemen on their March...near Boston"

Hartford 1775 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
273 Wadsworth Peleg

Revolutionary War Court Martial Boldly Signed By Peleg Wadsworth: "Not Guilty"

Roxbury 1775 USD 500.00 - 600.00 Unknown
274 Cheever David

One Month After Lexington-Concord and One Month Before Bunker Hill, Massachusetts Committee of Supplies Seeks to Purchase Flour Bound for Boston During Siege

Watertown 1775 USD 400.00 - 500.00 Unknown
275

1781 Boston Printed Act Excluding "Negroes, Indians and Mulattoes" from Military Service

Boston 1781 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
276 Hyde Caleb; Quincy Josiah

American Victory at Yorktown Soon! Josiah Quincy Expresses Confidence in Land Values in Western Massachusetts

Lenox; Braintree 1781 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
277 Platt Joseph; Belden Thomas

Start of Revolutionary War 1775 Pay Order for Regiment Training

Norwalk 1775 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
278 Keeler Isaac; Lockwood Eliphalet

(2) Rev. War Documents Related to Two Soldiers Who Wintered at Valley Forge

Hartford 1781-1782 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
279

Boston Printed Act to Clothe MA Line of Continental Army

Boston 1781 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
280 Bayard John

John Bayard Signed Pay Order as Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1777

Philadelphia 1777 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown