c. 1755-1887 Balance of Collection of Six Items of Early American Historical Ephemera, with Hand-Colored Fraktur Family Register and an Extensive 1768 Letter Discussing Plantation Development and Labor in the Southern Colonies, Very Fine.
This Large lot comprises Six Items of early American historical ephemera, spanning from the colonial era through the late 19th century:

1. Hand-colored fraktur family register for the family of Oliver and Sarah Laughton of Rhode Island, printed and hand-colored with allegorical seasonal figures, an eagle within a garland border, recording the births of eleven children between 1795 and 1818 and a run of family deaths spanning 1814 to 1877. Silked on the verso.

2. November 18, 1768 letter written from Glasgow, Scotland, and signed by John Bowman, running several pages and discussing, land grants and plantation development in South Carolina and Georgia, and around St. Augustine, East Florida, including acreage figures, the surveying and clearing of land, the sowing of rice, and the acquisition of laborers referred to in the letter as the writer's "Negroes."

3. Two colonial-era Rhode Island bounty certificates, one dated January 27, 1755 and certifying payment for killing three bears, the other April 18, 1764 and certifying payment for killing one wildcat.

4. Pair of printed 1887 Maryland political tickets for the November 8, 1887 election, one a Republican Ticket for gubernatorial candidate Walter B. Brooks of Baltimore County, the other a State and County Ticket headed by gubernatorial candidate Summerfield Baldwin of Baltimore City, including a referendum question on calling a state constitutional convention, both backed. Together, this lot ranges from colonial bounties and Rhode Island family record-keeping and Southern plantation development, to ephemera of late 19th century Maryland party politics. Lot Sold “AS IS” no return.

Provenance: Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II.