Lot 128: Ephemera Collection Related to Hingham, MA

SOLD: $1,003 (includes Buyer’s Premium)
Estimate: $400 – $600

Descended through the family of Solomon Lincoln, includes a framed Physician’s Bill dated 1736, “To Medicines and attendance to your family at Sundry Times to Sept 1736 – Mr. Joseph Lewis, Sarah Langley (Note: became Sarah Derby and started Derby Academy, Hingham) of Ezekiel Hersey.”; an important collection of notebooks, pamphlets, reports and letters concerning the history of Derby Academy, Hingham, including 19th c. Trustees reports, lists of students, Deeds of Lease & Release Reports, 1806; 1869 catalog of Derby with lists of Trustees, pupils, instructors, courses, etc.