RARE ANTIQUE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA ENFIELD CT STORE LEDGER NATHAN HALE FAMILY ?

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RARE ANTIQUE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA ENFIELD CT STORE LEDGER NATHAN HALE FAMILY ?:
$6500.00

***BEING OFFERED IS THIS SPECTACULAR HISTORIC RARE ANTIQUE 1799 LEDGER FROM A ENFIELD CONNECTICUT WAGON...BLACKSMITH...REPAIR SHOP... ABOUNDING WITH MANY REVOLUTIONARYWAR SOLDIERS NAMES...IN SOME CASES ACTUAL SIGNATURES...PROMINENT HISTORIC TOWN FIGURES... AND HALE FAMILY MEMBERS *** THIS IS A FRESH FIND FROM A INVENTOR AND WINCHESTER GUN DESIGNER\'S PRIVATE ESTATE... THIS TREMENDOUS TIME CAPSULE IS DATED 16 YEARS AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR ENDED... 1799 IS THE FIRST ENTRY AND 1805 BEING THE LATEST DATED ENTRY...THIS VERY HISTORIC LEDGER WAS ORIGINALLY FOUND IN MANSFIELD CT. WHICH HAPPENS TO BE THE VERY NEXT TOWN OVER FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICANPATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WARS HOME ***NATHAN HALE***...COVENTRY... CONNECTICUT... NOTE: LET ME STATE RIGHT HERE \"THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THESE ARE NATHAN HALES BROTHERS ETC. \"THAT\'S FOR HISTORIANS AND RESEARCHERS TODETERMINE!!\" I BEGAN MY COUNTLESS HOURS OF RESEARCH ON THE HALES WHICH IS A EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THIS LEGER BY RESEARCHING MANY, MANY GENEALOGY SITES THAT CAN LEAVE YOU DIZZY SO I DECIDED TO FIND THE FIRST EVER GENEALOGY OF THE HALE FAMILY COMPLETED \"LIFE OF CAPTAIN NATHAN HALE- THE MARTYR SPY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY I. W. STUART 1856.\" THE AUTHOR STATES SOME OF THE WELL KNOWN FACTS: NATHAN WAS THE SIXTH OF TWELVE CHILDREN...NINE SONS:... NATHAN...SAMUEL... JOHNATHAN ( DIED IN INFANCY ALONG WITH HIS SISTER SUSANNAH ) ALSO SISTERS ...ELIZABETH...JOANNA... FROM THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER RICHARD AND ELISABETHHALE... THIS IS THE SIMPLE TRUTH THE AUTHOR MR. STUART FOUND VERY IMPORTANT TO WRITE IN HISBOOK THAT PERTAINS TO THIS HISTORIC LEDGER... FROM THE HALES OF HERTFORDSHIRE ENGLANDTO THOMAS HALE, A EARLY SETTLER OF NEWBURY MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY - A LARGE PART OF ALLHALES IN NEW ENGLAND ARE ALL RELATED TO EACH OTHER AT THIS PERIOD OF TIME IN HISTORY... THESE SIX HALES ARE ALL FOUND IN THE LEDGER AND IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS NOT ALL ARE NATHAN HALES BROTHERS BUT A DAVID HALE, JOHN HALE, AND SAMUEL HALE DID DO BUSINESS WITH THIS POPULAR ENFIELD CONNECTICUT ESTABLISHMENT...DAVID HALE: YEAR LISTED 1800ELY HALE: 1800EBENEZER HALE 1805JOHN HALE SAMUEL HALE:1805Ooffer HALE: 1805THE PREVIOUS OWNER STATES THAT THERE WERE OTHER HALES LOCATED IN ENFIELD CT.BUT HIS RESEARCH DETERMINED THAT MOST HALES MOVED AWAY FROM ENFIELD OR PASSED - ON WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOMAS HALE BEFORE THE RECORDS WERE RECORDED INTHIS LEDGER. HE ALSO INDICATES THAT THIS LEDGER LIKELY BELONGED TO A ABEL TERRY :A GIFTED GENIUS MECHANIC OF ENFIELD CT. WHO OWNED A REPAIR SHOP/ BLACKSMITHWHO SPECIALIZED IN EARLY WAGON REPAIR ALONG WITH A POSSIBLE TERRY\'S FAMILY OWNEDSAWMILL... ABEL WOULD HOLD NOTES OR WHAT WAS THEN CALLED CONTRA (MONEY OWEDTO HIM AND HIS BUSINESS LISTED THROUGHOUT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS LEDGER.) THE WORK HE COMPETED CAN BE A BIT CHALLENGING TO READ OR TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE OF EARLY COLONIAL HANDWRITING WHICH IS ALSO QUITE BEAUTIFUL AND IS LISTED WITH SOMETIMES SEVERAL COSTUMERS PER PAGE ON THELEFT SIDE OF THE LEDGER... PEOPLE WOULD COME FROM FAR AND WIDE TO HAVETHIS GIFTED MAN WORK ON THEIR CARRIAGES ETC. THIS WOULD ONLY BE A APPROX. 20 MILE DAY RIDE BY HORSEBACK FOR MEMBERS OF THE HALE FAMILY IN COVENTRY, CT. ***HISTORIC NOTE***... NATHAN HALE WOULD RIDE HIS HORSE TO NEW HAVEN CT. TO STUDY AT YALE HIS AGE WAS 14 AND THAT IS APPROX. 56 MILES AWAY FROM COVENTRY, CT.... A TREMENDOUS UNUSUAL RARE ASPECT OF THIS LEDGER IS... ABEL TERRY WOULD ACTUALLY HOLD NOTES FOR HIS CUSTOMER\'S ANDWHEN THE BALANCE WAS PAID IN FULL THE CUSTOMER WOULD USUALLY HAVE TO SIGN THEIR NAMES \"NOT GENERALLY FOUND IN LEDGERS\"SO YOU HAVE SOME ACTUAL SIGNATURES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS ALONG WITHSOME TOWN FOLKS AND ALSO PROMINENT CUSTOMERS FROM ALL OVER... A LITTLE MORE THAN HALF THELEDGER IS FULL BUT HAS APPROX. 155 PAGES WITH MANY PAGES INCLUDING TWO AND SOMETIMES THREE SEPARATE NAMES AND BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS PER PAGE. MANY OFTHE ENTRIES I NEVER HAD TIME TO RESEARCH SO THERE\'S PLENTY OF UNEXPLORED TERRITORY FOR THE NEXT OWNER!! CONDITION: THE HARD COVER NEEDS TO BE REATTACHED AND THE FIRST OF MY PHOTOS SHOWS A TERRIFIC SEPARATE INDEX THAT ALSONEEDS SOME RESTORATION AND ATTACHES TO ONE COVER - FOR A BOOK APPROX 216 YEARS OLD IT HAS THE EXPECTED...FOXING... STAINING... A COUPLE OF RIPPED PAGES BUT LUCKILY NOTHING WITH SIGNIFICANT MISSINGWRITING ON THEM... DRY LEATHER WITH SOME EXPECTED FLAKING...APPROX 1 BLANK PAGETOWARD THE REAR WITH CHILD\'S SCRIBBLE... APPROX 9 LOOSE PAPERS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY WERE USED TO PRACTICE HANDWRITING AND CALCULATIONS... THREE LOOSE SEPARATE LATER MODERN PAGES SOMEONE USEDFOR RESEARCHING CT. REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS ... BUT MOST OF THIS MAGNIFICENT NOSTALGIC EARLY AMERICAN NEW ENGLAND TREASURE REMAINS INTACT AND IS IN SURPRISINGLY GOOD LEGIBLE CONDITION. PLEASE STUDY MY PHOTOS AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. THE LEDGER MEASURES APPROX.13 1/4\" HIGH...8 1/2\" WIDE... AND APPROX. 2\" THICK. HERE ARE SOME SAMPLINGS OF THE NAMES THAT APPEAR IN THIS HISTORIC LEDGER\'S ACCOUNTS: THOMAS ABBEY...ISAAC PEASE...DANIEL TERRY...CORPORAL ELIPHALET KILLAM...CAPTAIN RILY...LEMANUEL KINGSBURY...GILDEN PEASE...JABEZ PARSONS...ASA MEACHAM...NATHAN TERRY... OLIVER BUSH...DAN TERRY...SAMUEL HEMINGWAY...ELIPHALET COLLINS...GIDEON PEASE?...JONATHAN ALLEN?...ELIAS TERRY...SELAH TERRY...ELEMAUEL KINGSBURY...JAMES HALL...PHON RAYNOLDS...JOHN ABBY...CHARLS TERRY...ELAM PEASE...HERECKIAH PEASE...ELIPHALET CHAPIN... JOHN MEACHAM...MOSES ALLIN...LEBULAN PEASE...JEAMIS PEASE...DANIEL SMITH...COOLEY? ABIAL PEASE...LEVY ENO...HALES...AND MANY MORE... NOTE: THE NAMES IN THE LEGER\'S PAGESARE NOT NECESSARILY IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER AND THE SPELLING THEY USED IS NOT ALWAYS LIKE OURS TODAY.
CONDITIONS:THIS 1799 NEW ENGLAND TREASURE IS BEING SOLD IN AS IS AS FOUND CONDITIONWITHOUT CLEANING OR RESTORATION. THE ITEMS WE SELL ARE VINTAGE TO ANTIQUE AND WILL SHOW SIGNS OF NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR AND WILL SHOW IMPERFECTIONS. MANY OF THESE IMPERFECTIONS ARE VIEWED AS CHARACTER TO ANTIQUE LOVER\'S AND IS ONE OF THE WAYS TO DATE ITEMS. WE HAVE OVER 40 YEARS IN THE ANTIQUE BUSINESS AND LOCATED BETWEEN NEW YORK AND BOSTON GIVES US THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING MANY OF OUR ITEMS EVALUATED BY SOME OF THE TOP EXPERTS IN THE COUNTRY PRIER TO SALE. ANY CONDITION INFORMATION IS GIVEN AS A COURTESY TO THE BUYER AND SHOULD BE INTERPRETED AS A OPINION AND NOT A STATEMENT OF FACT. ALL ITEMS ARE SOLD AS IS ANDALL SALES ARE FINAL. THE SELLER MAKES NO WARRANTIES ON THE CORRECTNESS OF THELISTINGS PHYSICAL CONDITION, COLOR, SIZE, ORIGIN OR PERIOD. PLEASE STUDY THE PHOTOS AS PART OF THE DESCRIPTION. PLEASE DON\'T HESITATE TO ASK ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE offerDING. INTERNATIONAL BUYER\'S ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL IMPORT DUTIES, FEESETC. PLEASE RESEARCH BEFORE PURCHASE, PLUS ALL RETURNED SHIPPING CHARGES AND PROPER INSURANCE. PLEASE CONTACT SELLER FOR PROFESSIONAL PACKING QUOTES.NOTE WE MAKE NO MONEY ON PACKING OR SHIPPING!! WHATEVER THE SHIPPER CHARGESWE CHARGE. BY offerDING OR PURCHASE OF ITEMS THE PURCHASER ACCEPTS THE ABOVETERMS.***NOTE IF THERE IS FOUND TO BE A MAJOR ERROR MADE BY US THE ITEM MAY BE RETURNED*** PAYPAL IS OUR PREFERRED METHOD OF PAYMENT AND THE BUYER IS TO CONTACT THE SELLER WITHIN 24 HOURS OF THE SALE. PLEASE ALLOW 1-5 DAYS FORPACKING AND SHIPPING DUE TO WORK SCHEDULES. CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS PLEASE ADD6% STATE SALES TAX...PICKUP CAN BE ARRANGED FOR ITEMS AND POSSIBLE DELIVERYFOR LOCAL ITEMS. PLEASE CONTACT FOR DETAILS. THANK YOU!!