Washington's journal, Bunker Hill Bible up for auction
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A rare newspaper printing of a journal kept by a young George Washington and a small inscribed Bible carried by an American soldier during the
Washington's journal, Bunker Hill Bible up for auction
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A rare newspaper printing of a journal kept by a young George Washington and a small inscribed Bible carried by an American soldier during the Battle of Bunker Hill are among hundreds of historic documents being sold at a New York City auction.
Monday's 300-lot auction at Bonhams in Manhattan features items from a massive trove of historical papers collected by Eric Caren of Woodstock, New York.
The Washington document is a March 1754 Maryland Gazette publication of the then-22-year-old Virginia surveyor's journal detailing his failed effort to convince the French to withdraw from the Ohio River Valley. The auction house said it's the earliest procurable edition of the journal. It has a presale price of $60,000 to $90,000.
This photo provided Bonhams shows an inscribed pocket Bible carried by a Massachusetts soldier during the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 that will be auctioned next week in New York. A rare newspaper printing of a journal kept by a young George Washington and the bible are among hundreds of historic documents being sold at a New York City auction. (Courtesy of Bonhams via AP)
In the winter of 1753-54, the British governor of Virginia sent Washington into the wilderness along what is now the Ohio-Pennsylvania line to negotiate a wi