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Day one of Fleischer's 2026 Spring premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography.
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Lot 12

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] 1780 Receipt for Wheat Supplied to the Continental Army

Estimate: $250 - $500
Current Bid
$100

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR PROVISION RECEIPT FOR WHEAT SUPPLIED TO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1780

 

Partly printed document completed in manuscript. Baltimore County, Maryland, 3 March 1780. 1 page, approx. 8 3/8 x 4 1/2 in. Docketed to verso. 

 

A Revolutionary War provision receipt from Baltimore County, Maryland, recording that Mr. Thomas Amos was paid "two hundred and two pounds ten shillings" for "Ten Bushels and half peck of wheat at twenty pounds pr. Bushel". 

 

"An act for the immediate supply of flour and other provisions for the army," with the document entitling the bearer "to receive from the State of Maryland the current market price on this day, with six per cent. interest theron." 

 

[American Revolutionary War, American Revolution, Founding Fathers, Declaration of Independence, Colonial America, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs]

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