Sold for:
$281
$281
AMs ("James Bowdain"), one page, 4to, June 7, 1786. Includes reproduction portrait photograph of James Bowdoin. Discussing that Bowdoin had just received a letter from Congress respecting the commission established to settle the boundary dispute between Massachusetts and New York. In addition to being an intellectual force in the movement for Independence, Bowdoin presided over the constitutional convention that approved the Commonwealth's Constitution in 1780. As governor, he was essential to suppressing Shay's Rebellion. Bowdoin College was named for him.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2017-05-04
