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Title: Autograph Letter Signed Author: Hubbard, Captain Isaac Place: Springfield, [Massachusetts] Publisher: Date: Sept. 27, 1739 Description: 1 pp. To Abner Ely; “I desire you to pay to Cpt. Daniel Henchman Book seller in Boston the sum of two Hundred Pounds…” Undoubtedly in payment for Henchman’s service as officer of the Militia (later as Lt. Colonel) which was prepared to do battle with hostile Indians as well as the potential French enemies of Britain. Henchman (1689-1761) was also a Justice of the Peace and Overseer of the Poor and a businessmen with shipping interests who established the first Paper Mill in Massachusetts. But his real claim to fame was as a Boston bookseller and, for over forty years, a publisher whose name appears in the colophon of such significant volumes as Increase Mather’s Practical Truths (1718), Samuel Penhallow’s History of Wars of New England with Eastern Indians (1726), the Life of David Brainerd (1749), and a revised edition of the famous Bay Psalm Book (1758). According to bibliographic legend, he is also said to have privately produced the first American edition of the Bible in English - though with a false London imprint. Lot Amendments Condition: Ink bleeding a bit, yellowed with age; very good. Item number: 234002