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Lot 3012

attractive strike of two-line datestamp on folded letter from Jeremiah Wadsworth to Captain Nehemiah Hubbard in Middletown, Connecticut, manuscript "6" rate, very fine, Wadsworth was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1788 and a United States Representative from 1789 to 1795, Hubbard was a sea captain and veteran of the Revolutionary War who became first president of the Middletown Savings Bank