University Archives: Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books, 72926, Wilton
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 28, 2026 - July 28, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 230 | Camden Calvert & King | Rare 1788 Slave Trade Letter Requesting Payment for "Cargos of Slaves...such a valuable Property" |
London | 1788 | USD 2,600.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 231 | Hill Richard | Madeira Wine Merchant Distributes Slaves in Will |
Madeira | 1761; 1762 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 232 | Cox Gabriel; Moragne Isaac; Martin E. C. | Hiring Out Slaves for 1843 from a South Carolina Estate |
McCormick County, South Carolina | 1843 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 233 | Barraud Otway B.; Lewis David William | Family Seeks Information on Compensation for Slaves Lost in Revolutionary War at Ft. Morris - They Were Owned by Morris! |
Norfolk, Virginia; Milledgeville, Georgia | 1839 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Unknown |
| 234 | Ritche Moses; Rowell Alexander H. | Slaveowners Sell Individual & Groups of Slaves Across the Antebellum South |
North Carolina; South Carolina; Virginia | 1833; 1848; 1849 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 235 | Conrad G. W.; Moore A. B.; Avery J. C. | Individuals & Railroads Hire Slaves; Slaveowner Faces Legal Trouble for Allowing Slave to Hire Himself |
North Carolina; Texas; Alabama | 1852; 1857; 1861 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 236 | Oliver Egbert O. | Texas Slaveholder Seizes Slaves from Fellow Slaveholders to Prevent Their Being Sold Out of the State |
Texas | 1851 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 237 | McCann Joshua; Anderson Henry | Commissioners Divide Slaves Among Heirs in Southern Georgia |
Thomas County, Georgia | 1843 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 238 | Jones Edward | Treasury Department Official Seeks Runaway Slave in Philadelphia |
Washington, D.C. | 1810 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 239 | Slone Joshua | Guardian Accounts for Hire of Slaves to Support Minor Ward |
Wilcox County, Alabama | 1835 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 240 | Goldthwaite George | Contested Slaves - Alabama Judge Decides Possession |
Wilcox County, Alabama | 1850 | USD 350.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 241 | Spanheim Friedrich | Friedrich Spanheim the Younger ALS In French, Greek & Latin: "I lost several moments chastising the ignorance, and the calumny, of my defamer" |
Leiden | 1684 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 242 | Stone Lucy;Blackwell Henry | Lucy Stone Archive of Letters and Ephemera w/ Suffrage Content |
Boston;Dorchester | 1870-1887 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Unknown |
| 243 | Turtle Samuel | Revolutionary War Pay Order to Samuel Pillsbury, Said to Have Rowed B. Arnold to the HMS Vulture |
Newburyport, Massachusetts | 1780 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 244 | Thomas Isaiah | Early Printing of Articles of Confederation by Isaiah Thomas, 1782 |
Worcester, Massachusetts | 1782 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 246 | Scott Joseph | Boston Massacre, Just Days After: “As to the Party that fired on our people they remain in Jail for there tryall” - Virtually Unique on the Market! |
Boston, Massachusetts | 1770 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown |
| 247 | Burr Aaron | Aaron Burr PSA Slabbed Certified 2x Signed 1788 Bank Check |
New York, New York | 1788 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown |
| 248 | Burr Aaron | Aaron Burr Signed Manhattan Company Check |
New York, New York | 1800 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 249 | Clinton George;Barlo Edmund | G. Clinton Signed Rev. War Appointment Plus 2 Docs. Listing Prisoners and Court Martials |
Poughkeepsie, New York;New London, Connecticut | 1779-1780 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown |
| 250 | Clymer George | George Clymer, Dec. & Constitution Signer, PSA Slabbed NM-MT 8 Signed Check A Few Months After Becoming Bank President! |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1803 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 251 | Colden Cadwallader (1688-1776) | Citation Issued in the Last Weeks Before the NY Provincial Congress Convenes in 1775 |
City of New York | 1775 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 252 | Ellery William (1727-1820) | William Ellery Collects Customs On Slave Ship in Newport, Oct. 1793 |
Newport | 1793 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 253 | Franklin Benjamin (1706-1790) | Ben Franklin Free Frank Signature to William Greene, PSA Slabbed |
1763 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown | |
| 254 | Hamilton Alexander (1757-1804) | Alex. Hamilton LS: "very important objects in the business," Just After Having Passed His Bill For Fed. Assumption of All State Debts, He Continues His Work to Strengthen Union! |
Philadelphia | 1790 | USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 | Unknown |
| 255 | Hancock John | J. Hancock Re: Nathaniel Gorham and Fellow Declaration Signer Elbridge Gerry, Winning Election |
Boston | 1789 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | Unknown |
