2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
ROCHEFONTAINE, Stephen (1755-1814) French-born military engineer who served as such in the Continental Army, during the American Revolutionary War, and later as the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. For his distinguished services at the siege of Yorktown, Rochefontaine was given the brevet rank of major by Congress, November 16, 1781. President Washington appointed him a civilian engineer to fortify the New England coast, in 1794 and later a lieutenant colonel and commandant of the new Corps. Rochefontaine started a military school at West Point in 1795 and is considered one of the founders of the original Military Academy there. Common Document Signed "Step. Rochefontaine" on a rare Turnpike Stock certificate for 10 shares in the Newburgh and Cochecton Turnpike Road Company, 1812, 7½" x 4".VG. The Turnpike was also known as the "Appian Way" went from Newburgh to Cochecton to Deposit to Oxford. Horse drawn stage coaches carried passengers over the mountains to the Hudson River where travelers could proceed by steamboat to New York City. A rare certificate with an even more and desirable autograph. In Fine condition.
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