One-page holograph document
Bristol: Feby. 20th, 1816. 4to (approx. 9¼" x 7½"), mild dampstain in the left margin and entering the text; all else good or better. A 15-line invoice, in ink: "Mr. Allen Miller to C. F. Herreshoff" for items purchased from December, 1810 to February, 1814, largely for hay, hogs, and beef. "Received payment in full this date C. F. Herreshoff." Docketed on the verso, "C. F. Herreshoff bill settled 1816." Karl Frederick Herreschoff (1763-1819) was born in Westphalia and came to America, ironically enough, on a ship owned by the Browns, in Providence. Carl Frederick (he eventually changed the spelling of both his first and last name) eventually married Sarah Brown, the daughter of the merchant and slave trader, John Brown, and was the sire of the famed Herreshoff clan. He died by his own hand in the Adirondacks having squandered much of his wife's money, and having failed in sheep-raising and an iron-forge business. This invoice, docketed in Bristol in 1816, is likely for unpaid debts to Allen Miller over the course of three-plus years. Item #56402
Price: $950.00
