2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
PALMER, Joseph (1716-1788). American General, he fought in the Battle of Lexington and served in the Massachusetts Provincial Congress and on the Cambridge Committee of Safety. He sent Israel Bissell on his ride to warn that the war with Britain had begun. He received a commission as a colonel in the Massachusetts militia and as brigadier for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, in 1776. He went on intelligence-gathering missions in Vermont and Rhode Island Document Signed, "J. Palmer, BG." 1 page. 8 ½" x 3 ¾" VG. Palmer appoints Mr. Joseph Wild "You are hereby appointed Quarter-Master to Colo. McIntosh's regiment, being a detachment form Suffolk Brigade of Militia, for which appointment this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand at Watertown, the 18th of September, 1776." An interesting document signed by this scarce Revolutionary War General. Mounted to thick card stock.
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