July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War of 1812 date Autograph Letter Signed by Samuel Brown, 3pp. folio, Philadelphia, March 12, 1815, with integral leaf addressed to his brother in Belfast, Ireland, it reads in part: “...I have been fortunate during the late unfortunate war and although I never wished for it I was one who always supported it in money believing it to be the best government in the world. I pursued during the last nine months which was the time to try the friends of a Republican government thirteen thousand dollars worth of stock at from 75 to 87 [?] for one hundred and the interest paid four times a year and is now at near par. your brother Thomas keeps dry good stores and having a large stock on hand when the news of peace came fell one half in price will lose much but he is strongly attached to the government of England still believing they would destroy our navy and bring us to make a peace on their own terms. He has been disappointed, him and myself cannot agree on politics. Had the war continued many years I should be a looser in house rents and government taxes at least four hundred dollars pr. year. This city has been more favored than any other during the war. We scarcely ever felt the war till the English burned the City of Washington, if worth calling it a city, but that was a fortunate day for this country than the opposite party as is called, joined us and with one voice every man turned out in the city to the amount of twenty thousand...We have lost many valuable lives here, but nothing to compare with what the English has lost...” Very good condition.
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