Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
Group of five (5) Massachusetts Militia documents, includes: Broadside, 1pp. folio, “GENERAL ORDERS” Issued by William Donnison, March 8, 1804, and reads in small part: “...The Military Establishment on which the American Governments seem principally to rely is the Militia; they therefore confide to the Free Citizens of the United States the honorable charge of the national defence. Though all military institutions have an ultimate reference to a state of war; yet it is the policy of every good government to aim at removing, to the greatest possible distance, that scourge of human happiness; and no system appears more likely to avert the evil than that of assuming the military position of an armed nation....” Fine condition...plus; Muster-Roll, of Capt. Oliver Jackson’s Company of Foot, 1805, listing roughly sixty soliders, 1pp. folio. Good condition...plus; Three “Company Orders” c. 1803-05, one signed by Captain Oliver Jackson and two signed by Lt. Nathan Jackard. Very good condition. (5 items)
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