Spring Auction 2018
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/26/2018
An exceedingly rare partly-printed Revolutionary War "Loyalty Oath”, 1p. 8" x 2 1/2", June. 27, 1776. In full: “I Silas Hinman of Woodbury do acknowledge to have voluntarily inlisted myself a soldier, to serve in a Battalion of Foot raifed by the Colony of Connecticut, to join the Continental Army in New York, to be commanded by Col. Fisher Gay Esq,
Until the Twenty-fifth Day of December next. Witness my Hand this 27trh day of June A.D. 1776. Manuscript portions are very legible and clear, overall a good example of this rare document. As the British occupied New York City, the areas immediately surrounding the city were the scene of incessant military activity on the part of both opposing armies as well as local vigilantes of all political stripes. These oaths were used to prove the bearer a loyalist or revolutionary.
1776 REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT'S "LOYALTY OATH" a week before the Declaration Of Independence Signing!
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