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Massachusetts Documents 7
Legal document,Deed Made In 1736,Rehoboth
1736 deed for land in Rehoboth, Massachusetts made between John
Garnsey and Nathan Reed. John Garnsey's name is signed, but his wife, Elizabeth,
apparently could only sign an X.
1777 Colonial Am.Document Liquor Violation
Job Smith Esq., caught selling rum for 4 shillings six pence
instead of 2 shillings a quart. More than the law allows. Document reads
"State of Massachusetts the government and people of Massachusetts Bay Colony in New
Englend." Mass Bay Seal, Great Year,1777.
1779 Colonial Am.Document Citing Fornication
By presentment of the Grand Jury in the fourth year of American
Independence, Anna Glading "single women, " that she, Anna, on the first day of
June in the Year of the Lord 1778 at Rehoboth,Massachusetts, with "force and
arms" did commit fornication with a person unknown to the jurors against the peace.
Size 7 7/8x6 1/4
1725 Colonial American Document, Bad Debt
Names mentioned are William Williams, Mary Howland. May not be
a MA doc.
1795 American Document, Supeona
1795 original American document, supeona for Ebenizor Keene to
appear as a witness before a Grand Jury, Tauton, Massachusetts.
1778 Colonial.Am.Document, Bastard Child
1778 original Colonial American document, Government of the
people of Massachusetts Bay, against Hannah Greenwood of Rehoboth, "single woman and
spinster." Committed fornication and had a bastard child born of her body.
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