The Sale featuring The Hedgerow Theatre Collection (1686) October 28, 2020 EDT, ONLINE ONLY Lot 1

Estimate: $300 - $500 (plus Buyer's Premium) [ Family] Mini-Archive 1. [Biddle, Beulah] Printed Document, signed Bond between Samuel Sansom and J. Thomas Annis, dated December 10, 1742, and signed by Annis, Jo(seph) Ryan, and Tho(mas) Croasdale. Samuel Sansom's son, Joseph Sansom (1767- 1826), was married to Beulah Biddle (1768-1837). 12 1/8 x 7 3/4 in. (307 x 196 mm). Unexamined out of frame. 2. [Biddle, Charles] Manuscript Document, signed February 23, 1786. Land patent on vellum for John Hide: "...on the West Side of Ninth Street from Delaware between Mulberry and Philbert Streets in the city of " and signed by Chas. Biddle, referred to in the document as "The Honorable Esquire Vice President of the Supreme Executive Council. Additionally signed "James Trimble/for John Armstrong/jun. secy". 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (298 x 349 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. Charles Biddle (1745-1821) served as Vice-President of Pennsylvania from October 10, 1785 to October 31, 1787. 3. [Biddle, Craig] Westchester and Philadelphia Railroad freight receipt for "One Bull Calf" West- Chester, (Pennsylvania), February 22, 1865. Printed receipt, finished in MS. 8 x 4 1/8 in. (203 x 104 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. 4. [Biddle, James] Sparks, Jared The Life and Treason of Benedict Arnold Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co./London: Richard James Kennett, 1835. First edition. 12mo. 335 pp. Illustrated with an engraved title, four plates, and one map. From the "Library of American Biography" series. Blue buckram library-style binding, spine faded; marginalia in pencil; scattered light foxing. From the library of Commodore (1783-1848) and with his ownership signature on title-page; thence by descent to Craig Biddle whose visiting card is pasted to the front free endpaper. 5. [Biddle, Nicholas] Printed Document, finished in manuscript November-December, 1807. With the signatures of Conrad Bartling, William Bartling, William T. Donaldson, and Samuel Meeker; docketed "N Biddle" on verso. 7 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (196 x 171 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. 6. [Biddle, Nicholas] N. Biddle. President of the Bank of the United States Philadelphia, ca. 1837. Mezzotint by John Sartain after the painting by J. Eichholtz. 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (342 x 260 mm) (sight). Unexamined out of frame. 7. Goodrich, Charles A. A History of the United States of America; From the Discovery of the Continent by Christopher Columbus, to the Present Time… Hartford: H.F. Sumner & Co., 1835. Reprint (first published in 1832). 12mo. 540 pp. Full contemporary tree calf; front free endpaper excised. Presumed nineteenth-century engraved armorial Biddle family book-plate on front paste-down over an earlier book-plate.