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REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT CONGRESSMAN SIGNED LETTER !!!
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1794 DOCUMENT SIGNED BY A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT & PRIVATEER! Stephen Higginson (1743 - 1828) Revolutionary War Privateer, Continental Congressman, Lt. Colonel during Shays' Rebellion, Successful American Merchant and Active Shipmaster from Boston! 's a 1794 Autograph Letter Signed by Higginson regarding a financial transaction to Mr. James McEvers. [I believe McEvers served in Capt. Thomas Prichard's Company of the Third Massachusetts Regiment and was honorably discharged at West Point in August, 1783. - more research needed on this point...] Higginson was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1783. He took an active part in suppressing Shays' Rebellion and advised Governor Bowdoin & was Lt. Colonel of the regiment that was sent from Boston. He was the author of numerous anonymous political pamphlets attacking John Jay and John Hancock. While on a visit to England in 1774-5, he was called to the bar of the House of Commons and questioned as to the state of feeling among the Mass colonists. This folded letter document is dated at Boston Massachusetts, March 1, 1794. The address leaf bears a "BOSTON" straightline, full black Franklin postal marking, and manuscript "40" rate. The document measures approx. 7" x 9" and is in very good condition, with a small piece out at the right side of letter from opening at wax seal. A NICE ADDITION TO YOUR REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA MILITARY/POLITICAL AUTOGRAPH & MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION! <<:>> BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE STEPHEN HIGGINSON <<:>> HIGGINSON, Stephen, merchant, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 28 November, 1743; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 22 November, 1828. He was descended from Reverend Francis Higginson. Stephen was bred a merchant, and from 1765 till 1775 was an active and successful shipmaster. While on a visit to England in 1774-'5, he was called to the bar of the house of commons, and questioned as to the state of feeling in Massachusetts. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1782-'3, navy agent at Boston in 1797- 1801, and was one of Governor Bowdoin's most active advisers in the suppression of Shays's rebellion, serving as lieutenant- colonel of the regiment that was sent from Boston at that time. He was a firm Federalist, and strongly supported the administrations of Washington and Adams. He lost a large part of his fortune in the war of 1812. He published "Examination of Jay's Treaty by Cato," a pamphlet (Boston, 1795), and the essays signed "Laco," attacking John Hancock, were generally attributed to him. Stephen Higgionson's son, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, was active in the antislavery agitation of this period, and for his part in the attempted rescue of a fugitive slave (see BURNS, ANTHONY) was indicted for murder with Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, and others, but was discharged through a flaw in the indictment. He also aided in the organization of parties of free-state emigrants to Kansas in 1856, was personally acquainted with John Brown, and served as brigadier-general on James H. Lane's staff in the free-state forces. He became captain in the 51st Massachusetts regiment, 25 September, 1862, and on 10 November was made colonel of the 1st South Carolina volunteers (afterward called the 33d United States colored troops), the first regiment of freed slaves mustered into the national service. He took and held Jacksonville, Florida, but was wounded at Wiltown Bluff, South Carolina, in August, 1863, and in October, 1864, resigned on account of disability. I am a proud member of the Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC), The Ephemera Society of America, the Manuscript Society & the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) (member name; John Lissandrello). I subscribe to each organization's code of ethics and authenticity is guaranteed.
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