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THBGroup of Navy Lieutenant?s Documents, 1820s?40s, Signed by Two Secretaries of the Navy.
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2018-06-26 20:30:00
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Our summer book, manuscript, and memorabilia sale features several categories: historical documents and Americana, modern literature, science, math, and children's books, autographs, and periodicals. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
Our summer book, manuscript, and memorabilia sale features several categories: historical documents and Americana, modern literature, science, math, and children's books, autographs, and periodicals. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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[U.S. Navy] Group of Navy Lieutenant?s Documents, 1820s?40s, Signed by Two Secretaries of the Navy. Ten pieces pertaining to the career of Lieutenant Hubbard H. Hobbs, of the U.S. Navy, comprising: partially-printed appointment (1825) countersigned by Samuel Southard; partially-printed leave of absence signed by John Branch; order to report for duty in the U.S. Frigate Guerriere (1828), signed by an officer; letter from the Navy Department responding to Hobbs? tendered resignation, but that ?under the impression that this?may have been forced upon you?the Department prefers returning to you the Commission, that you may have an opportunity of re-considering,? signed by Branch (1829); an unsigned three-page document, ?Charges and specifications of charges pro-forma by Lieut. H.H. Hobbs of the United States Navy,? delineating: neglect of duty; disobedience of orders; and contempt of his supervising officer; a four-page letter from Hubbard?s friend Jos. H. Terry, to Mrs. Cornelia Hobbs, informing her of Hubbard?s death, with a lengthy account of the sickness that afflicted him, and his burial; two of Hubbard?s last wills and testaments, composed aboard the USS Brandywine, leaving his wife and family ?the five of my negroes in Alabama with the interest of all the monies now due me as well as the interest of all I may be possessed of at the time of my death??; and two letters from the Navy pension office regarding the widow?s case, signed by Robert McClellan and James L. Edwards (1843).
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