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Signed by Former Revolutionary War General

Lincoln, Benjamin.

[Printed Document Completed in Manuscript] District of Boston and Charlestown, Signed by Benjamin Lincoln.

[Boston]; [Charlestown]: 1802. 1 sheet. 8 x 12.25 inches. Very good, folded, minor tearing along edges, remnant of seal in corner,contents clean. Item #44956

July 15th, 1802. District of Boston and Charlestown shipping form, for merchandise including six bales of sheeting and two bales of Ravens Duck, shipped by Ebenezer Parsons on board the Schooner Doris of Joseph Elderidge, bound for the Port of Baltimore. "Net amount of Duty securd, One hundred thirty three Dollars & eighty one cents." Signed by "B [enjamin Lincoln], Collector".

Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810) was a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, involved in John Burgoyne's surrender of a British army, oversaw the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 Siege of Charleston, and, accepted the British surrender at Yorktown acting as George Washington's second in command. "Lincoln's service in the Saratoga campaign had made him particularly popular in western Massachusetts. At the outbreak of Shays' Rebellion in 1786, he was put in command of the Massachusetts militia marching against the insurgents, and he personally raised $20,000 to finance the expedition. On January 20, 1787, he marched from Boston to relieve General William Shepard (1737-1817), who was holding the arsenal at Springfield, and one week later, he successfully split the Shaysite forces at the Connecticut River.... used his influence to ensure ratification of the federal Constitution. (Introduction to The Benjamin Lincoln Papers, MHS). After the war, Lincoln remained in the political arena, serving a term as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and as the Collector of the Port of Boston.

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