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Fascinating and frameable March 1, 1756, Colonial shipping
document (7½”x6") from Newport, RI. Jewish merchant Aaron
Lopez ships ‘spermaceti’ candles (wax from cranial cavity of
sperm whales) to pioneer Jewish fur trader Hayman Levy in
New York. Partly printed document signed ‘Isaac Lawton’ as
Master of the Sloop ‘Industry,’ on laid paper. Document reads
(in part): ‘Shipped by the Grace of God, in good Order and
well conditioned, by Aaron Lopez in and upon the good Sloop
called the Industry whereof is Master, under God, for the
present Voyage, Isaac Lawton and now riding at Anchor in the
Harbour of Newport and by God’s Grace bound for Newyork
To Say, Thirty Seven Boxes spermacety [sic] Candles for acct
& Risque of the Shipper & goes Consigned to Mr Hayman
Levy Merchant there.’ Levy (1721-89) was president of
Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, the first Jewish
congregation in North America, and was one of the founders
of the Congregation Mickve Israel in Philadelphia. Uneven left
edge removes part of handwritten words in margin. Water
stained at right. Good. (Complete transcript and University
Archives LOA).

– AMERICAN –
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/D 1652 HENRY VANE, COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF
MASSACHUSETTS SIGNED DOCUMENT ..... PH $1000-1500

Manuscript document (one page, 7¼”x11½”) signed, ‘H Vane,’
on watermarked laid paper with integral leaf docketed on verso,
June 15, 1652. Related document on verso of first sheet. Sealed
vertical tear. Light foxing and soiling, otherwise near fine.
Scarce Colonial signature. (University Archives LOA)
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D 1675 COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS DOCUMENT
REGARDING SALE OF SAWMILL .................. PH $1000-1500

Manuscript document (one page, 8½”x12¼”) signed ‘Allen
Convers’ and Elizabeth Convers ‘by her Marke’ ‘E,’ Woburn,
Middlesex [Massachusetts
Colony], March 8, 1675.
Strengthened on verso at folds.
Small portion removed to the left
of each signature and red wax
each bearing fingerprint of
signer. On watermarked laid
paper. In part, ‘Allen Convers of
the Towne of Woburne in the
County of Midlesex in ther
Massachusets Collony in
New England...unto Robart
Eams...Carpenter one twelfth
part of a saw mill...at a place
commonly caled boggy
medow...’ Very legible. Accompanying information links Allen
Convers to Edward Convers, one
of the 7 founders of Woburn, and
may well have traveled as a boy on the ‘Arabela’ in 1630. Fine
and historically significant.(University Archives LOA).

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D 1769 ORIGINAL CERTIFIED VINTAGE INDIAN LAND
DEED W/ PICTOGRAPH ‘SIGNATURES’ ........ PH $3000-4000

Certified copy of manuscript American Indian deed for 300,000
acres of land in Albany County, NY, from ‘Jacob, Petrus, Peter
and Adam...representing the whole tribe of the Aughquageys,’
Johnson Hall (residence of Sir William Johnson, near
present-day Johnstown, NY), Feb 9, 1769, to Col John
Bradstreet, certified and signed at New York by Goldsbrow
Banyar (‘GW Banyar D Secry’), deputy secretary of New York,
June 16, 1769. Document was deaccessioned from the Chicago
Historical Society several decades ago. The pictographs were
most likely executed by the White settlers. This in no way
detracts from the historical significance of this document. Fine.
(University Archives LOA)

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D 1756 COLONIAL DOCUMENT REGARDING SHIPMENT
OF SPERMACETI (WHALE) CANDLES ............ PH $750-1000

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