1867 Autograph Letter Signed by Robert Safford Hale, Lawyer and Congressman, Vermont-native.


A lengthy 8-page letter by Robert Safford Hale (1822-1881) that is exclusively filled with genealogical and family information.

Author of Thomas Hale the Glover of Newbury, Mass., (1635) and his Descendants. (1877), Hale “published in addition an important argument as counsel and a report as agent of the United States, before the British and American Mixed Commission, and possibly some speeches in Congress. Mr. Hale, son of the late Hon. Harry Hale, of Chelsea, Vt., was born in that town September 24. 1822; graduated at the University of Vermont, 1842; read law and settled at Elizabethtown. Essex county, New York, for the practice of his profession: was Judge of Essex County Court, 185,6-64; Regent of the University of New York, 1859; elected to the 39th and 45d Congresses.” (Davis, Vermont Bibliography, p112)


Description: 1867 Autograph Letter Signed by Robert Safford Hale, Lawyer and Congressman, Vermont-native.

Washington, D.C. January 15, 1867. Quarto. 8-pages. Very good.

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Price: $100.00

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