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THBDAVID HUMPHREYS, 1813 Autograph Letter Signed - Known as The Hartford Wit
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American Revolution
War of 1812 "Hartford Wit" David Humphreys Signed Letter Born Derby, Conn. next neighboring town Ansonia
DAVID HUMPHREYS (1752-1818). American Revolutionary War Colonel and Aide-de-camp to General George Washington, American Minister to Portugal and then to Spain, Entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and Member of the Connecticut State Legislature, also Poet and Author, he was one of the "Hartford Wits."
July 17, 1813-Dated War of 1812 Period, Autograph Letter Signed, "D. Humphreys", 1 page, measuring 10.75" x 8" at Humphreysville (now Seymour, CT.), Choice Very Fine. David Humphreys as an Aide-de-Camp, friend and confidant to George Washington, was entrusted with carrying the Surrendered British Standard from the victory at the Battle of Yorktown to the Continental Congress, then in Philadelphia, which now hangs at the headquarters of the New Haven Museum and Historical Society, which also has a ceremonial sword that Congress voted be presented to Humphreys.
This Letter written to: "Gen. Eben(ezer) Huntington - Com(manding) Gen(eral) - State of Connect." This cover letter enclosing "the result of the Election of Officers in the Humphreysville Compy of Volunteer Exempts, & request that Commissions may be issued accordingly" (list not present) - (Signed) "D. Humphreys."
This Military Letter is very clean and lightly folded, some marginal faint tone, nicely written in fine dark brown in Humpreys' hand. Bold brown Docket on the perfectly clean, blank reverse reads: "Humphreysville Choice of Officers 26 July 1813." Any document or letter signed by David Humphreys is quite rare, specially during his War of 1812 military service.
He was born in what was then Derby, Connecticut, and now a part of the neighboring town of Ansonia, in the First Congregational Church parsonage, a spaceous two-story house at 37 Elm St. called the David Humphreys House. He was the youngest of five children (four sons and a daughter) of the Rev. Daniel and Sarah Riggs Bowers Humphreys.
Humphreys' father was parson of the church from 1733, the year after he graduated from Yale, to 1787-a run of 54 years. Daniel Humphreys was the second husband of Sarah Riggs Bowers, known in Derby as "Lady Humphreys" for her "dignity and refinement of character," according to author Leo T. Molloy.
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