18th-19th C MA Governor Letters, Docs Coll (17pc)

Collection of Seventeen Massachusetts Governor Documents: (2) Partly printed document, signed by Gov. James Bowdoin appointing John James Spooner of Roxbury as Suffolk County JP, dated 18 March 1786, with period woodcut of Gov. Bowdoin; (2) Autographed letter signed by Governor John Brooks to Henry A. S. Dearborn, dated Medford, March 14, 1817, with lithograph of Governor Brooks; (2) Autograph letter signed by Governor John Davis addressed to Nelson Poe and "others of the delegates of Baltimore to the Whig Convention" dated Washington, May 2, 1840. with lithograph of Gove. Davis; (1) Framed and matted autograph letter signed by Governor Marcus Morton to George Bancroft, Esq. dated Taunton, 31 August 1840. Frame under glass measures 17.25" H x 22.5" W; (2) Autographed letter signed by former Gov. John H. Clifford dated Boston, 8 Jan. 1874, with lithograph of Gov. Clifford; (2) Autographed letter signed on Executive Department letterhead by Gov. Henry J. Gardner to Benjamin Perley Poore dated Boston, 26 Feb. 1856, with lithograph of Gov. Gardner; (2) Autographed letter signed by former Gov. Emory Washburn to Franklin B. Sanborn, Esq. dated Cambridge, April 12, 1875, with lithograph of Gov. Washburn; (2) Commission for Benjamin M. Rounds of Norton, MA as "First Lieutenant of Company D in the Fourth Regiment of Artillery, , , of the Militia of this Commonwealth" issued on 30 August 1851, signed by Governor George S. Boutwell and Secretary of the Commonwealth. With separate lithograph of Boutwell; (2) Commission for Calvin Lane of Norton as "Captain of a Company in the Battalion of Artillery. . .of the Militia of this Commonwealth" issued on 31st March 1824 signed by Governor William Eustis and Secretary of the Commonwealth Alden Bradford. With lithograph of Governor Eustis.

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