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[AMERICAN COLONIAL FIGURES]. BLACKWELL, JOHN, Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Autograph letter signed in full as Deputy Governor TO WILLIAM PENN, "Proprietor and Chief Governor of Pennsilvania," Philadelphia, 30 May 1689, one page, 4to, with panel from address leaf pasted to blank lower margin, closely written, complaining that Penn has still not paid his salary of #400 per year, complaining that he "undertook the Journey [to the colony] at great expense," and has been serving as Deputy Governor with "utmost diligence & all faithfullness at my owne charge..." Rare. -- BUTLER, RICHARD, Colonel, Continental Army, Indian agent, scalped 1791. Document signed ("Rich:d Butler"), Fort Pitt [Pittsburgh], 30 September 1769, one page, oblong 8vo, neatly inlaid, certifying an account. Rare. -- PEPPERELL, Sir WILLIAM, Colonel, First American Baronet. Autograph letter signed ("Wm. Pepperell") to "Col. Jacob Wendall in Boston," Louisbourg, 13 February 1745, one page, 4to, integral address leaf with panel in Pepperell's hand and original wax seal, a fine letter from his camp before Louisburg (which he captured from the French in June 1745), reporting he has been "confined to my chamber almost three weeks by sickness," commiserating for the death of a daughter, expressing hope that "sufficient Troops may be here so early in ye Spring that those brave men that came here to reduce this place may be released," and in a postcript praying that "ye Almighty will watch over poor New England for [a] good many of her sons have been taken away here by Death...."; Autograph letter signed ("Wm. Pepperell") to George Coade, London, 8 March 1749, one page, oblong 16mo, regarding an account with a merchant in Cadiz, aranging transfer of funds to "my Son Andrew Pepperell...Merchant in Piscataqua in New England where they build vessels very well & cheap..."; Autograph document signed ("Wm. Pepperell") n.p., n.d., one page, 12mo, listing expenses for attendance at court in 1749; WINTHROP, JOHN, Astronomer and Mathematician. Autograph letter signed in full to Jonathan Belcher, Cambridge, Mass., 25 January 1765, 2 pages, 4to, wear at edges, describing American resentment over recent British actions, commenting that the Townshend Acts "and the manner in which they are enforced, almost engross conversation, and occasion an general uneasiness. The merchants complain loudly of them, and the best judges...are of the opinion, [that] they will in the event prove not less prejudicial to the Mother Country, than to the Colonies"; sending a copy of Hutchinson's History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and discussing Hutchinson's reportage of the witchcraft trials and his own role in them. (6)

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[AMERICAN COLONIAL FIGURES]. BLACKWELL, JOHN, Deputy Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania. Autograph letter signed in full as Deputy Governor TO WILLIAM PENN, "Proprietor and Chief Governor of Pennsilvania," Philadelphia, 30 May 1689, one page, 4to, with panel from address leaf pasted to blank lower margin, closely written, complaining that Penn has still not paid his salary of #400 per year, complaining that he "undertook the Journey [to the colony] at great expense," and has been serving as Deputy Governor with "utmost diligence & all faithfullness at my owne charge..." Rare. -- BUTLER, RICHARD, Colonel, Continental Army, Indian agent, scalped 1791. Document signed ("Rich:d Butler"), Fort Pitt [Pittsburgh], 30 September 1769, one page, oblong 8vo, neatly inlaid, certifying an account. Rare. -- PEPPERELL, Sir WILLIAM, Colonel, First American Baronet. Autograph letter signed ("Wm. Pepperell") to "Col. Jacob Wendall in Boston," Louisbourg, 13 February 1745, one page, 4to, integral address leaf with panel in Pepperell's hand and original wax seal, a fine letter from his camp before Louisburg (which he captured from the French in June 1745), reporting he has been "confined to my chamber almost three weeks by sickness," commiserating for the death of a daughter, expressing hope that "sufficient Troops may be here so early in ye Spring that those brave men that came here to reduce this place may be released," and in a postcript praying that "ye Almighty will watch over poor New England for [a] good many of her sons have been taken away here by Death...."; Autograph letter signed ("Wm. Pepperell") to George Coade, London, 8 March 1749, one page, oblong 16mo, regarding an account with a merchant in Cadiz, aranging transfer of funds to "my Son Andrew Pepperell...Merchant in Piscataqua in New England where they build vessels very well & cheap..."; Autograph document signed ("Wm. Pepperell") n.p., n.d., one page, 12mo, listing expenses for attendance at court in 1749; WINTHROP, JOHN, Astronomer and Mathematician. Autograph letter signed in full to Jonathan Belcher, Cambridge, Mass., 25 January 1765, 2 pages, 4to, wear at edges, describing American resentment over recent British actions, commenting that the Townshend Acts "and the manner in which they are enforced, almost engross conversation, and occasion an general uneasiness. The merchants complain loudly of them, and the best judges...are of the opinion, [that] they will in the event prove not less prejudicial to the Mother Country, than to the Colonies"; sending a copy of Hutchinson's History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and discussing Hutchinson's reportage of the witchcraft trials and his own role in them. (6)