[COLONIAL AMERICA]. Manuscript identifying a budget allotment for Oglethorpe's regiment in Georgia.
Sale 1136 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Mar 27, 2023
Lots Close
Apr 4, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$500
Sold for $189
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Lot Description
[COLONIAL AMERICA]. Manuscript identifying a budget allotment for Oglethorpe's regiment in Georgia.
"Proposed Reduction on the Estimate for Plantations Minorca & Gibralter." ca 1730s-1740s. 1p, folio, 8 x 12 1/4 in. (creasing at folds, pencil notation near top left, light soil).
Manuscript indicating budget changes and military expenses from the year 1722 and 1748 in several British colonies, including a line for the "Difference between Oglethorpe's Regt. & the Indept. Company formerly maintained at So. Carolina" and a budget line for "Provisions for Oglethorpe's Regiment."
James E. Oglethorpe (1696-1785) was a British soldier, politician, and the first Governor of Georgia. He founded the colony of Georgia in 1733. Oglethorpe's Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed for service in North America ca 1737 during a period of increasing conflict between Britain and Spain. A very scarce early Colonial manuscript.
Estate of Carroll J. Delery III, Formerly the “Historical Shop”
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