Colonial America
Rare “Annapolis Royal” 1719/20-Dated Boldly Printed Early Colonial British Military Ordinance Receipt
February 4, 1719/20-Dated, Colonial Period Partly-printed Military Ordinance Receipt for 190 Flints for Governor Phillip’s Regiment, Annapolis Royal (Port Royal, Nova Scotia), Choice Very Fine.
This original Partly-Printed Document Signed, “Rob(ert) Wroth,” as the “Adjutant of His Excellency Governour Phillips's Regiment,” 1 page, measuring 8” x 12.75” at Annapolis Royal (Port Royal, Nova Scotia). An indenture between, in part:

"His Grace ye Duke of Marlbrough Master General of His Majesty's Ordnance…and Robert Wroth…Witnesseth, That the said Robert Wroth hath received out of His Majesty's Stores within the Office of the Ordnance, at Annapolis Royal by an Order from ye Honable John Doucett Esqr. for ye Use of ye five Companys Vizt Flints…190."

The original embossed Wax Seal at lower right still fully affixed and clear. Minor expected edge tone and normal folds with s few trivial scattered wear holes, and fully indented across the top. An exceedingly rare, historic Annapolis Royal Document that is the earliest and very first of its type we have offered.
Annapolis Royal, originally Port-Royal, was settled by the French in 1605. It was the first European settlement in Canada, settled three years before Quebec City and two years before Jamestown, Virginia. It became Annapolis Royal (after Queen Anne) when the British took sovereignty of Nova Scotia from the French in 1710. It was the capital of Nova Scotia from 1713 to 1749. The defeat of Port Royal in 1710 marked the final conquest of Acadia by the British. Under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Acadia was granted to the British; however, the vague boundary definitions saw only the peninsular part of Nova Scotia granted to Britain, and the next half century would be turbulent years as Britain and France acted out the final struggle for Acadia and North America.