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American & Southern Featuring Jefferson Foundation Deaccessions | May 20, 2026

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Charles Willson Peale’s exceptional portrait of Col. Nicholas Rogers, landscapes by JF Kensett, JF Cropsey, Wolf Kahn and William Bradford lead American fine art offerings. Southern paintings represented by MH Weeden, Alfred Hair, Hattie Brunner, WH Stevens and WI Anderson. MESDA-documented furniture, a Dunlap family chest on chest, deaccessions from the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the VMFA, a Tiffany Studios Daffodil table lamp, several sterling flatware services, George Ohr and Outsider art. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Group of Three Portsmouth, New Hampshire Documents
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Group of Three Portsmouth, New Hampshire Documents

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18th century and all three relating to the Jeffrey family of Portsmouth, with relevance to important early Partridge and Belcher families, to include: 1720 quit claim decree for property of James and Anna Jeffrey, mention of Andrew Brock's widow, dwelling house bought of Colonel William Partridge and Dame Mary his wife, Samuel Penhallow as Recorder, folio 11-1/2 x 7 in.; 1721 legal document involving George and James Jeffrey, mention of William and Samuel Koais (or Koas) the latter a shopkeeper (dollmaker?) whose wife Mary was daughter of Thaddeus Ridden of Marblehead, partial wax seal affixed, 12 x 7-1/2 in.; 1736 partnership agreement for establishing a Jeffrey family mining company, covering "searching, finding, and working of mines of lead, copper, and tinn [sic] within County of Essex, Massachusetts Bay, New England", witness David Wentworth, folio 12-1/4 x 7-1/2 in.

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