Sullivan, John (1740-1795),and Sullivan Family

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Sullivan, John (1740-1795),and Sullivan Family, Group of ephemera; including, Sullivan, General Jonathon (1740-1795),eight autograph letters and notes signed, 1769-1789, many detailing supply requests for the Continental Army; signed document, July 25th, 1786, one page, as Governor of New Hampshire, appointment of Jonathon Baroson aid-de-camp to Sullivan in the militia; four broadsides, a 1779 newspaper and three pamphlets; Sullivan, Governor James (1744-1809),twelve letters, documents and ephemera related to Sullivan, two broadsides and five pamphlets; Sullivan, John L. and William, ten autograph and documents related to their careers, (varying condition).
Estimate $6,000-8,000

two broadsides calling for a general fast, Portsmouth: John Melcher, 1787, and Exeter: L. Lamson, 1790; four large broadsides issued by James Sullivan, as Governor of New Hampshire, 1807-1808, (one with heavy losses); a broadside detailing a list of Harvard University students and the fields of study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 31st, 1808; a small broadside detailing the funeral procession of James Sullivan, December 16th, 1808; an interesting commerce broadside entitled American Commerce in Flames!, March 28th, 1808; and a framed print of Major General John Sullivan.

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