February 13th 2025 Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/13/2025
Benjamin Tallmadge Autograph Letter Signed ("Benj. Tallmadge"). One page, 7.875" x 9.625", Litchfield; July 1, 1818. A brief letter concerning an unspecified legal case. He writes, in part: "...Mr. Granger engaged to stop all further proceedings in Chancery of the State of Connecticut against me, & as the Pitff, or Petitioner withdraws from the field, I should hope that Officers & Court fees would not fall for payment on me..." Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Tallmadge by G. Parker.
Benjamin Tallmadge (February 25, 1754 – March 7, 1835) was an American military officer, spymaster, and politician. He is best known for his service as an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He acted as leader of the Culper Ring during the war, a celebrated network of spies in New York where major British forces were based. He also led a successful raid across Long Island that culminated in the Battle of Fort St. George. After the war, Tallmadge was elected to the US House of Representatives as a member of the Federalist Party.
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