1799, folded letter from New York to Shelburne Nova Scotia, HALIFAX SHIP LRE handstamp on front with manuscript 5½ and via New York on cover to Halifax, Dec 14 99 transit stamp on reverse, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $100 - 150. Est. $100-150 (Image)

Est. $100-150

1801-47, 9 folded letters with SHIP markings, and other interesting postal manuscripts and handstamps, a lovely group all imaged on the website, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $100 - 150. Est. $100-150 (Image)

Est. $100-150

1807, folded letter to the Secretary of War in Washington, D.C., from Fort Independence, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $40 - 60. Est. $40-60 (Image)

Est. $40-60

1831-32, 3 folded letters with SHIP and QUARANTINE h.s. and Boston c.d.s, 1831 (1)-1832 (2), Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $60 - 80. Est. $60-80 (Image)

Est. $60-80

1832-50, 7 folded letters with FREE handstamps, with various c.d.s.'s and manuscripts, all imaged on the website, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate $60 - 80. Est. $60-80 (Image)

Est. $60-80

1850, folded letter concerning a prison, interesting blue folded letter to Canaan, N.H. between two brothers…G. Patch writes as an employee of the East Cambridge Prison in Massachusetts on July 4, 1850…"small pox is thick in the city, professor Douglas will be hung, the prisoners were given lemonade and roast stuffed pig and then allow to play ball in the prison yard" as celebration for independence day, Fine to Very Fine, remarkable contents.
Estimate $60 - 80

It was crusader Dorthea Dix who petitioned states to move funding from prisons such as these and assist the mentally ill in better facilities. Often times criminals and mentally ill were crammed in inhumane facilities during the mid to late 1800's. Est. $60-80 (Image)

Est. $60-80