Spirit of '76: America's 250th Anniversary Auction

11 Jun 2026  |  USA, Amherst, NH
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James Otis: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (Third Edition, 1766)

8001: James Otis: The Rights of the... Estimate: Login

John Dickinson: An Essay on the Constitutional Power of Great-Britain over the Colonies in America (First Edition, 1774)

8002: John Dickinson: An Essay on... Estimate: Login

[King George III] Baptist Noel Turner Autograph Draft Proposal for Settling the American Colonies (c. 1775)

8003: [King George III] Baptist Noel... Estimate: Login

John Hancock and Samuel Adams Letter Signed on American Radicals' Disaffection with British Colonial Policies and "notorious Violations of their Property" (1766)

8004: John Hancock and Samuel Adams... Estimate: Login

John Hancock War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed as Chairman of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Urgently Summoning a Delegate to a Committee Meeting in Cambridge (1774)

8005: John Hancock War-Dated... Estimate: Login

John Adams Handwritten Letter on the Eve of Revolution, Declaring that "Britain has neither Troops nor Money" to fight America while calling Boston Tories "Enemies of Mankind"

8006: John Adams Handwritten Letter... Estimate: Login

Joseph Warren Autograph Document Signed - Medical Bill to Col. Elisha Doane for Medicines and Attendance, Endorsed by His Brother Dr. John Warren

8007: Joseph Warren Autograph... Estimate: Login

Joseph Warren: Manuscript Draft Eulogy for the Patriot General Killed at Bunker Hill, Published in the Pennsylvania Magazine During Thomas Paine's Editorship (1775)

8008: Joseph Warren: Manuscript... Estimate: Login

Francis Lewis Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on NYC's Reaction to the Battles of Lexington and Concord: "This City in a violent ferment" (April 26, 1775)

8009: Francis Lewis Revolutionary... Estimate: Login

Patrick Henry Autograph Document Signed, Valuing an Enslaved Woman and Child in a Financial Settlement During the Revolutionary Era (1776–1777)

8010: Patrick Henry Autograph... Estimate: Login

William Dawes Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed, Issuing Rations to Continental Army Recruits Five Years After His Midnight Ride with Paul Revere

8011: William Dawes Revolutionary... Estimate: Login

Paul Revere Autograph Document Signed, Receiving Payment from a Wealthy Patron of His Silver Shop

8012: Paul Revere Autograph Document... Estimate: Login

John Hancock Signed 1765 Faneuil Hall Lottery Ticket

8013: John Hancock Signed 1765... Estimate: Login

George Washington Signed 1768 Mountain Road Lottery Ticket - One of About 25 Examples Known

8014: George Washington Signed 1768... Estimate: Login

George Washington Revolutionary War-Era Handwritten Manuscript Fragment on Raising "a large standing army for the defence of the Rights and liberties of America"

8015: George Washington... Estimate: Login

George Washington War-Dated Letter Signed, Penned in the Hand of Alexander Hamilton Four Days Before the Battle of Germantown, Addressing the Philadelphia Campaign, Burgoyne's Northern Collapse, and the Road to Saratoga (1777)

8016: George Washington War-Dated... Estimate: Login

George Washington Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed to Brig. Gen. Potter, Planning a War "to be carried on against the Savages...against the Indians of the Six Nations"

8017: George Washington... Estimate: Login

George Washington War-Dated Letter Signed to Major Benjamin Tallmadge with Original Franked Address Panel, Directing Culper Ring Intelligence Courier Routes and Referencing Founding Spy Abraham Woodhull (1779)

8018: George Washington War-Dated... Estimate: Login

Washington Headquarters: Orderly Book of the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment with the Newburgh Address and Proclamation of Peace (1782-1783)

8019: Washington Headquarters:... Estimate: Login

Washington Headquarters: Orderly Book of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment with the Proclamation of Peace and Founding Texts of the Society of the Cincinnati (1782-1783)

8020: Washington Headquarters:... Estimate: Login

George Washington: John Carlile Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed from Washington's Headquarters, Announcing Congress's Order to Disband the Continental Army

8021: George Washington: John... Estimate: Login

John Hancock Revolutionary War-Dated Letter Signed to Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase, and Charles Carroll, Announcing George Washington's Arrival at Philadelphia in 1776 and the Exhaustion of the Congressional Treasury

8022: John Hancock Revolutionary... Estimate: Login

Charles Thomson Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Document Signed, Appointing Naval Agents for Privateering Prizes (1776)

8023: Charles Thomson Revolutionary... Estimate: Login

Benjamin Franklin Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed on Peace Negotiations with Great Britain: "Every thing seems to be rejected by your mad Politicians that would lead to Healing the Breach" (1777)

8024: Benjamin Franklin... Estimate: Login

John Hancock War-Dated Document Signed, Commissioning the Schooner Liberty for Privateering Against Great Britain - "Colonies" Amended to "States" Reflecting American Independence

8025: John Hancock War-Dated... Estimate: Login

Benjamin Franklin Twice-Signed 1,500,000-Livre Promissory Note Binding the United States to Repay France for Funding the Revolutionary War - Printed on Franklin’s Own Press (1782)

8026: Benjamin Franklin Twice-Signed... Estimate: Login

Benjamin Franklin Autograph Letter Signed to Denmark's Envoy, Addressing the Capture of a Danish Vessel by an American Privateer (1784)

8027: Benjamin Franklin Autograph... Estimate: Login

John Adams Revolutionary War-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to John Hancock, Written While Finalizing the Treaty of Paris Ending the Revolutionary War

8028: John Adams Revolutionary... Estimate: Login

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed from The Hague, Addressing Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and the Organization of American Diplomacy Following the Treaty of Paris (1784)

8029: John Adams Autograph Letter... Estimate: Login

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed with Thomas Jefferson Countersignature, Authorizing Negotiations with the Barbary Powers as American Sailors Were Held Captive in North Africa (1785)

8030: John Adams Autograph Letter... Estimate: Login

John Witherspoon Autograph Letter Signed to Constitution Signer Thomas FitzSimons, Written One Month After the Signing of the Constitution, Discussing Hard-Money Shortages and Princeton Finances (1787)

8031: John Witherspoon Autograph... Estimate: Login

Arthur Middleton Handwritten Revolutionary War-Era Congressional Resolution on Maintenance of Prisoners of War, with Secret Cipher Key

8032: Arthur Middleton Handwritten... Estimate: Login

Declaration of Independence: Force Print from W. J. Stone's Copperplate (c. 1833)

8033: Declaration of Independence:... Estimate: Login

Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War–Dated Handwritten Letter (Copy of Henry Clinton's Letter to Oliver De Lancey)

8034: Benedict Arnold Revolutionary... Estimate: Login

Lord Jeffrey Amherst Revolutionary War–Dated Document Signed, Issuing Arms to the First Hessian Troops Sent to America (1776)

8035: Lord Jeffrey Amherst... Estimate: Login

Revolutionary War (4) Hand-Drawn Maps

8036: Revolutionary War (4)... Estimate: Login

King George III Signed Royal Military Commission, Countersigned by Lord George Germain, Appointing Sir Henry Clinton "General in America only" (April 1, 1776)

8037: King George III Signed Royal... Estimate: Login

Esek Hopkins War-Dated Letter Signed from 'Onboard the Alfred,' Requesting Cannon for the Defense of New England Ports

8038: Esek Hopkins War-Dated Letter... Estimate: Login

Benedict Arnold War-Dated Letter Signed with Handwritten Loyalist Confession Warning of Enemy Infiltration - Written Three Years Before His Own Defection to the British

8039: Benedict Arnold War-Dated... Estimate: Login

Captured Hessian Muster Roll (1778)

8040: Captured Hessian Muster Roll... Estimate: Login

George Clinton War-Dated Letter Signed to Delaware Governor Caesar Rodney, Urging Uniform Interstate Provisions for Continental Soldiers and Their Families (1780)

8041: George Clinton War-Dated... Estimate: Login

Gouverneur Morris Twice-Signed Oath of Allegiance Renouncing King George III, Witnessed and Countersigned by Thomas McKean (August 8, 1781)

8042: Gouverneur Morris Twice-Signed... Estimate: Login

Haym Salomon and Robert Morris Signed Bill of Exchange for Financing the Revolutionary War (October 22, 1782)

8043: Haym Salomon and Robert Morris... Estimate: Login

John Lawrence War-Dated Signed Connecticut Pay Order, Issued to a Free Black Soldier and Veteran of Germantown, Monmouth, and Valley Forge (1782)

8044: John Lawrence War-Dated Signed... Estimate: Login

George Clinton Document Signed as Governor of New York, Appointing Delegates to the Continental Congress (February 3, 1784)

8045: George Clinton Document Signed... Estimate: Login

David Hartley the Younger (7) Revolutionary War-Era Handwritten Manuscripts on Peace Negotiations by Britain's Sole Signatory to the Treaty of Paris

8046: David Hartley the Younger (7)... Estimate: Login

John Paul Jones Autograph Letter Signed to Thomas Jefferson, Pressing for "Prize-Money" Claims Attached to His Revolutionary War Naval Victories

8047: John Paul Jones Autograph... Estimate: Login

Constitution Signers: Complete Set of (40) Autographs with Founding Fathers George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison

8048: Constitution Signers: Complete... Estimate: Login

Colonial Currency of the Thirteen Colonies (1776)

8049: Colonial Currency of the... Estimate: Login

Thomas Jefferson’s Copy of Sir John Davies’ Le Premier Report (Dublin, 1615), Retaining His Characteristic “TJ” Ownership Markings, Descended from the Library of Sir John and Peyton Randolph

8050: Thomas Jefferson’s Copy of Sir... Estimate: Login

Shays’ Rebellion: Aaron Hill Letter Signed for the Selectmen of Cambridge - "We were then & still are of opinion, that the Constitution & The laws provide for every case"

8051: Shays’ Rebellion: Aaron Hill... Estimate: Login

Constitution: Manuscript Draft of a Treatise on the Constitution and Bill of Rights (c. 1787), Taking Aim at Slavery and the 'Three-fifths Compromise'

8052: Constitution: Manuscript Draft... Estimate: Login

Charles Thomson Document Signed as Secretary of the Continental Congress, Appropriating $100,000 for the Establishment of Permanent Capital Buildings

8053: Charles Thomson Document... Estimate: Login

Constitution: Manuscript Meeting Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of Connecticut (c. 1787)

8054: Constitution: Manuscript... Estimate: Login

US Constitution: Debates, Resolutions and Other Proceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (First Edition, 1788)

8055: US Constitution: Debates... Estimate: Login

John Hancock Broadside for the Selection of Massachusetts' Electors in the First Presidential Election

8056: John Hancock Broadside for the... Estimate: Login

Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

8057: Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed... Estimate: Login

Thomas Paine Handwritten Manuscript on Revolutions and the Rights of Man: "We can scarcely conceive a more diabolical System of Government than has been generally established over the World"

8058: Thomas Paine Handwritten... Estimate: Login

Thomas Jefferson Signed First Edition of the 1791 U.S. Census, Accounting for Free Whites and Slaves - "Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States"

8059: Thomas Jefferson Signed First... Estimate: Login

Alexander Hamilton Signed Treasury Department Circular on the Interpretation of the Coasting Act

8060: Alexander Hamilton Signed... Estimate: Login

Samuel Adams Letter Signed on His First Day as Governor of Massachusetts on "the first principles of a Federal Government," Lashing Out Against Judicial Overreach in Support of States' Sovereignty

8061: Samuel Adams Letter Signed on... Estimate: Login

John Jay Autograph Letter Signed, Writing Home While En Route to London to Negotiate the Jay Treaty

8062: John Jay Autograph Letter... Estimate: Login

James Monroe Handwritten Manuscript Draft on International Affairs and the Jay Treaty

8063: James Monroe Handwritten... Estimate: Login

John Jay Handwritten Letter Draft, Defending His Treaty with Great Britain: "I believe it will be fairly and literally executed, unless new courses of irritation and disgust should arise"

8064: John Jay Handwritten Letter... Estimate: Login

James Monroe Autograph Letter Signed on Rumors of the Jay Treaty: "Reports of what has been concluded between that gent'n & the B[ritish] admn makes it of great importance that I should be advised on the subject"

8065: James Monroe Autograph Letter... Estimate: Login

George Washington Document Signed as President, Appointing a Customs Collector in South Carolina

8066: George Washington Document... Estimate: Login

George Washington Memorial Portrait Pendant with Locks of Hair Attributed to George and Martha Washington, Descended Through the Family of Major General Benjamin Lincoln

8067: George Washington Memorial... Estimate: Login

Book of Common Prayer with Rare Double Fore-Edge Paintings of George Washington, Martha Washington, and Revolutionary War Scenes

8068: Book of Common Prayer with... Estimate: Login

John Adams Letter Signed, Declaring "Negro Slavery an Evil of Colossal Magnitude" Months Before the Missouri Compromise

8069: John Adams Letter Signed... Estimate: Login

Thomas Jefferson Franking Signature and Marquis de Lafayette Autograph Letter Signed in Custom-Bound Book - Lafayette in Virginia

8070: Thomas Jefferson Franking... Estimate: Login

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Document Signed as President and Secretary of State, Appointing Aaron Burr’s Stepson to the Superior Court of the Territory of Orleans After the Louisiana Purchase (1804)

8071: Thomas Jefferson and James... Estimate: Login

Thomas Jefferson Rare Polygraph Letter as President, Discussing Western Expansion and Dismissing Reports of Indian Hostilities as "entirely false”

8072: Thomas Jefferson Rare... Estimate: Login

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