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Lot #0334RG: Historic document: Revolutionary War Era: Henry Gardner Esq., Tax collector for the State of Massachusetts (March 1780)

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Bidding Ended: Thu, Sep 15  10:36:00 pm ET
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Starting Bid: $1.00
Item Location: 148 Hillwood Ave, Falls Church, VA 22046
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Framed under glass, original document appears to be laminated with plastic causing a waffling effect.

Signature is clear and strong.

Henry Gardner was born at Stow, Massachusetts Bay, in mid-November of 1731, a son of Rev. John Gardner and Mary (Baxter) Gardner. By the early 1770s, Henry Gardner -- who had become a lawyer -- found himself in sympathy with the cause of the Sons of Liberty, was involved with the Committees of Correspondence, and found himself the treasurer for the rebellious Colonials, gathering Massachusetts Bay taxes and fees that would otherwise have gone to the Crown: in October of 1774, he was elected as Receiver-General of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Tradition in Stow has it that the last stop of one of Paul Revere's associates on April 19, 1775, was at Gardner's home, warning him of the risk that British troops might come all the way to Stow in an attempt to confiscate the rebels' funds... and likely arrest him as treasurer.

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