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[Colonial America]. Nicholas Bayard and Jacob Wendell Documents Signed, with Additional Plymouth Colony Documents....
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[Colonial America]. Nicholas Bayard and Jacob Wendell Documents Signed, with Additional Plymouth Colony Documents. An early group of New York and Plymouth Colony documents signed by prominent colonial figures Nicholas Bayard, Jacob Wendell, Josiah Cotton, and others. Includes:Nicholas Bayard Document Signed. One page, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, New York; May 5, 1692. An order addressed to Captain Theunis Dekey, instructing him to detach men from his company of fusiliers for service in New York: "Pursuant to an Act of Assembly, Instituted an act for raising of two hundred men &c...you are hereby required forthwith to detach from men out of the Company of fuseleers under your Command, 100 that you may have them reddy here at New York..." Signed, "N Bayard." With a period provenance note attached (with adhesive) to the verso, identifying Dekey: "Theunis Dekey Esq the within gentleman had his first commission from S. Edmund...Gov'r of New York on April 10 1680. He was Father to my Grandmother Wendell whose maiden name was Catherine Dekey of New York. Attested John Wendell aged 72 / Dece'r 12 / 1803."
Jacob Wendell Document Signed. One page, 8 1/4 x 13 inches, Boston; June 5, 1710. Written in English and Dutch, this letter from merchant Jacob Wendell informs his brother, John, that he has drawn a bill in his name: "Dear Brother, This Serves to advice you that, I this day have Drawn, a bill on you, payable to James Smith's Order, which I pray You to honour..." Signed (in Dutch), "Geneege Broeder & Dient" [Your Dear Brother and Servant], "Jacob Wendell."
William Bradford and John Nelson Document Signed. One page, 7 1/2 x 12 inches, Plymouth; April 13, 1693. A record noting payment received by John Nelson from Francis Cook for a "parcell of meadow." In part: "I John Nelson of Plymouth in new England, for & in Consideration of fourty shillings silver mony to me in hand paid by Francis Cooke of Plymouth aforesaid, with which said John Nelson am fully satisfied." Signed, "John Nelson" and "William Bradford."
Josiah Cotton Partial Document Signed. One page, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, Plymouth; August 12, 1693. The bottom portion of a document from Justice Josiah Cotton, an Indian missionary and Register of Deeds for Plymouth Colony. He signs at the bottom right, "Josiah Cotton Reg'r."
John Rickard Document Signed. One page, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches, Plymouth; February 11, 1697. Records payment to Rickard by Francis Cook for his share of a shallop in Plymouth Harbor: "Know Yee: that I the sd John Rickard for & in Consideration of the just sum of twenty nine pounds::six shillings Eight pence...all ready paid by Francis Cook of this Town." Signed "John Rickard." Additionally signed by John Sturtevant and Nathaniel Clarke as witnesses.
James Warren Document Signed. One page, 7 3/4 x 12 inches, Plymouth; May 14, 1699. An order to "Frances Cooke Constable of Plimouth" to collect taxes for construction of a house for Ephraim Little: "In his Maj'ty name you are Required forthwith Levy and collect of the persons named in the list herewith committed unto you...the sums total of such list being a tax or assessment granted and agreed upon by the Inhabitance of the said town of Plimouth...for the payment of money to Mr Ephraim Little towards building his house in Plimouth." Signed, "James Warren" and "William Shurtlef," assessors.
Condition: All documents age-toned with some edgewear; flattened folds with separations thereat, occasionally affecting text. Wendell document with dampstaining at left edge; minor loss near top left edge, affecting a single word. Bradford document with remnants of sealing wax at bottom right; pencil annotations on verso. Josiah Cotton document just holding at folds. Rickard document fully separated at bottom fold.
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