AMERICAN REVOLUTION, COLONIAL PERIOD, VIRGINIA]. DINWIDDIE, Robert (1693-1770), Governor of Virginia . Partly printed document signed ("Robt Dinwiddie"), a grant of property in Augusta County, in the Shenandoah Valley, Williamsburg, 12 February 1755. 1 page, double folio (13 7/8 x 14 in.), accomplished in manuscript, ON VELLUM, signature pale, soiling and minor loss to edges . Governor Dinwiddie grants "Robert Fowler one certain tract or Parcel of Land containing fifty acres Lying and being in the County of Augusta on a branch of the North River of Shanando" for five shillings. Just a couple months after Dinwiddie signed this grant, he organized Braddock's doomed expedition into the Pennsylvania wilderness. -- LEE, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Major General, Continental Army . Partly printed document signed ("Henry Lee") as Governor of Virginia, a militia officer's commission, Richmond, 9 May 1793. 1 page, folio (12 5/8 x 7¼ in.), accomplished in manuscript and endorsed on verso, paper seal in lower left corner, separated at horizontal fold and browned . Governor Lee appoints Andrew Ervin lieutenant in the 1st battalion of the 32nd Regiment of militia. Lee proved himself as a cavalry commander during the Revolution and was the father of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Together two items . (2)
AMERICAN REVOLUTION, COLONIAL PERIOD, VIRGINIA]. DINWIDDIE, Robert (1693-1770), Governor of Virginia . Partly printed document signed ("Robt Dinwiddie"), a grant of property in Augusta County, in the Shenandoah Valley, Williamsburg, 12 February 1755. 1 page, double folio (13 7/8 x 14 in.), accomplished in manuscript, ON VELLUM, signature pale, soiling and minor loss to edges . Governor Dinwiddie grants "Robert Fowler one certain tract or Parcel of Land containing fifty acres Lying and being in the County of Augusta on a branch of the North River of Shanando" for five shillings. Just a couple months after Dinwiddie signed this grant, he organized Braddock's doomed expedition into the Pennsylvania wilderness. -- LEE, Henry "Light-Horse Harry" (1756-1818), Major General, Continental Army . Partly printed document signed ("Henry Lee") as Governor of Virginia, a militia officer's commission, Richmond, 9 May 1793. 1 page, folio (12 5/8 x 7¼ in.), accomplished in manuscript and endorsed on verso, paper seal in lower left corner, separated at horizontal fold and browned . Governor Lee appoints Andrew Ervin lieutenant in the 1st battalion of the 32nd Regiment of militia. Lee proved himself as a cavalry commander during the Revolution and was the father of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Together two items . (2)
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