[COLONIAL AMERICA.] A collection of 37 letters and documents relating to Colonial American history, 17th and 18th centuries. Highlights include: [FRANKLIN PRINTING.] An Act for Granting His Majesty [George II] the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pounds…by a tax on all estates real and personal, within this Province. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1760. 4to, 44pp., wrappers (top half of first page and all of back page lost, spotted and foxed throughout). -- [FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. AMHERST, Jeffrey. LS to Gov. Lyttleton, New York, 18 April 1759. 2 pages, folio. Amherst discusses the “contractors” who are “bound to carry and transport the provision to the places, forts and garrisons where the forces may be destined, at their own expense.” He mentions Pitt, and his (Amherst’s) intentions to cooperate with Admiral Saunders.” -- [SLAVE MANUMISSION.] WARDER, Elizabeth. Partly printed document signed 15 January 1781. 1p., 8vo, repaired on verso. A Lower Makefield (Bucks Co.) woman grants a “Release from Bondage” of “my Negro Man named Virgil Williams, aged about forty years…declaring the said Negroe Man Named Virgil Williams…absolutely free, without any interruption from me, or any person claiming under me…” Signed by Warder with her mark (“X”). the docket on verso notes the manumission was recorded in “Quarterly Meeting Book, page the 23rd,” suggesting this manumission was accomplished by persuasion of a Quaker congregation. A complete list of the lot available upon request.