Raynor HCA 2013-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2013
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, ONE THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED, AND SEVENTY-EIGHT. AN ACT TO RETURN TO THIS STATE OF CERTAIN PERSONS THEREIN NAMED, AND OF OTHERS WHO HAVE LEFT, OR SHALL LEAVE THIS STATE, OR EITHER OF THE UNITED-STATES OF AMERICA, AND HAVE JOINED, OR SHALL JOIN THE ENEMY. Folio. Unbound signature. Soft creases from folding. Upper inner margin lightly stained and heavily chipped, with no loss to text; small tears and chips at edges. Good. With "An act to confiscate the Estates of sundry Persons therein named." Named in this is “John Wentworth, Esq; late Governor of this state ...” Early acts of the state of New Hampshire. The text, which was also printed as a broadside (Evans 15923), names over seventy accused loyalists, including their occupations and towns of residence. NAIP locates only one copy, at Harvard. Rare. On June 13, 1775, after Wentworth’s house was surrounded by a mob of armed men seeking to arrest a Loyalist militia officer, Wentworth and his family fled to Fort William and Mary, which was under the guns of the Scarborough. Conditions continued to deteriorate, and Wentworth boarded the Scarborough and sailed for Boston on August 23. After sending his family to England, he remained in the city until it was evacuated to Halifax in March 1776. He remained with the fleet until New York City was captured in September 1776, and finally sailed to England in early 1778. The New Hampshire government established after his departure seized most of his property, but specially reserved to the family portraits and furniture from the Portsmouth mansion.
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