July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
DEARBORN, Henry (1751-1829) was an American physician, a statesman and a veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. When fighting in the American Revolutionary War began, he organized and led a local militia troop of 60 men to Boston where he fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill as a captain in Colonel John Stark’s First New Hampshire Regiment. He then volunteered to serve under Benedict Arnold during the difficult American expedition to Quebec. His journal is an important record for that campaign. He was captured on December 31, 1775, during the Battle of Quebec and detained for a year. He was released on parole in May 1776, but he was not exchanged until March 1777. After fighting at Ticonderoga, Freeman's Farm and Saratoga, Dearborn joined George Washington's main army at Valley Forge as a lieutenant colonel where he spent the winter of 1777–1778. He fought at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, and in 1779, he accompanied Major General John Sullivan on the Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois in upstate New York. During the winter of 1778-1779 he was encamped at what is now Putnam Memorial State Park in Redding, Connecticut. Dearborn joined Washington’s staff in 1781 as deputy quartermaster general with the rank of colonel, and was present when Cornwallis surrendered after the Battle of Yorktown. Autograph Letter Signed “H. Dearborn” 1pp. quarto, Boston, Massachusetts, February 12, 1810, addressed to David Gelston, and reads “If the papers I enclosed stated the clearance of the Morning Star as being on the 24th of January, it was a mistake the fact is that the 24th of March 1809 is the date of her clearance...” Very good condition.
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.