Item #59045 One-and-one-half-page autograph manuscript to Samuel Lewis, Constable of Reading, Massachusetts in the north precinct, per order of the selectmen. Peter Emerson, Town Clerk.

One-and-one-half-page autograph manuscript to Samuel Lewis, Constable of Reading, Massachusetts in the north precinct, per order of the selectmen

Reading: 1726. On recto and verso of a sheet of paper approx. 7½" x 6"; previous folds, very good. Town Clerk Peter Emerson directs Constable Samuel Lewis to gather freeholders and other inhabitants for a meeting: "you are Required forth with to warne all the free wholders and other in habitance qualified as the Law Dyrects in your precints, to meete at the South meeting hous in Reading ... to know the Minde of the towne whether they will petition to the Generall Court for a number of our naibours at the North Ende of Malden to be set of[f] to our township and whether the towne will cuse a Commitey to manidge that afare and whether ...the towne will chuse a Commitey to look after our Rights of herbidg in the Six Hundred acrs in Lyn..." Docketed on the verso by Samuel Lewis with "his X mark" noting that "I have warnd ye Inhabitants in my precint to meet at time & place according to warrent." Item #59045

Price: $350.00

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