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Publication Date: 1879
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
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Highway Robbery, Tomkins County, New York, 1879 [Broadside]. [Criminals]. [New York (State)]. $100.00 Reward!! Dated Oct. 8, 1879. Tomkins County, NY, October 8, 1879. 9-1/2" x 9" broadside, text in single column below headline. Light browning, horizontal fold line through center, a few chips and clean short tears to left-hand margin. $350. * The broadside reads (in part): "On Saturday evening, October 4th, 1879, about 9 o'clock, Emmett Rhodes was waylaid by a highwayman on the road about two miles northeast of Groton Village, Tomkins County. The robber demanded Mr. Rhodes' money, and this being refused, he fired two shots, by one of which Mr. Rhodes was seriously wounded." Signed in type by William J. Smith, Sheriff of Tomkins County.
Published by [Utica, N.Y.?], 1815
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Broadside, 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Early folds. Contemporary ink and pencil inscriptions on verso, partially lost to trimming. Head of verso affixed by sealing wax to leaf of 19th-century ruled paper bearing 19th-century descriptive inscription. Light foxing, minor ink stains. A good copy. An unrecorded early 19th-century New York State broadside advertising for sale five farms near Utica and a fifty-acre lot in Deerfield: "FOR SALE, 3 FARMS, In the Town of Frankfort, and County of Herkimer, About six miles from the village of Utica, and within one of Littlejohn's Furnace, all under improvement, and well wooded. One of them has on it a never failing stream of water, calculated for the purposes of saw or grist mills, &c. In the same neighborhood, an excellent, well-timbered LOT. ALSO - AN IMPROVED FARM, within three miles of the village of Utica, with a Frame-house on it, lately occupied by Neil M'Coy. All of the above Farms containing upwards of one hundred acres each. ALSO - FOR SALE, THE HOUSE and FARM, lately occupied by Isaac Smith, half way between Utica and Herkimer, containing ninety three acres. A situation well calculated for a Tavern or Store.TO BE SOLD, ALSO, 50 acres of Lot No. 3, In Deerfield, Oneida County.For further particulars, apply to Mr. ISAAC BRAYTON, Deerfield, Oneida County." Likely from the press of Asahel Seward and William Williams, pioneering printers in the region and publishers of the FARMER'S CALENDAR, OR UTICA ALMANACK. during this period. Unsurprisingly, this ephemeral document is not located by OCLC and is not recorded in any known references.