1796 A nice early piece of ephemera from Bucks County, Pennysylvania, dated 1796, relating to wildlife ethics in colonial America, particularly on the bounty on crows. ORIGINAL 1796 INK MANUSCRIPT ORDER ON 8" x 3" rag paper "To the County Treasurer...Pay Henry Overholt of Bedminster Township...two Shillings... for Eleven Crows heads...produced to me...", signed Alias Hughes, with ink receipt; the usual very light toning and spotting of paper, but overall good condtion and GUARANTEED ORIGINAL. [keywords: bird control, conservation, killing birds, pest control]                            $95 plus $3.50 postage & ins (international orders extra) for this book (in ephemera drawer) To order this item email dick@AlaskaWanted.com                                                Men have no faith in fine-spun sentiment                                                        Who put their trust in bullocks and in beeves.                                               The birds were doomed; and, as the record shows,                                                        A bounty offered for the heads of crows.                                                                                            Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,                                                                                                                          THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH

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