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[Certificate]

Noted as a copy. A certificate from the inhabitants of Frankfort Plantation showing that Governor Francis Bernard and Thomas Goldthwait did not execute their agreements. States only 18 families were settled and the roads and a church were never...

GLC02437.09193

[Contract]

Signed by Samuel and Sarah Waldo, and co-signed by Frances Waldo, Isaac and Lucy Winslow, Thomas and Hannah Flucker (most of Hannah Flucker's signature is missing due to a tear in the document), Francis Bernard, and Thomas Goldthwait. John Commell...

GLC02437.10642

to the Selectmen of Medway, Massachusetts

Along with Hancock, Joseph Jackson, John Ruddock, John Rowe and Samuel Pemberton signed as the selectmen of Boston. Recounts Parliament's impositions on the Americans via the Intolerable Acts and the alarm caused by the announcement by Sir Francis...

GLC03110

[Massachusetts-Bay order to pay William Angier]

Partially printed order to pay 1500 pounds for Angier's "Sufferings in the year 1759 - as mentd in his Petn." Authorized by order of the governor, Sir Francis Bernard. Cotton was then deputy secretary and would become secretary to the Stamp Act...

GLC02503.06

[Appointment of John North as a Justice of the Peace in Lincoln County, Massachusetts]

Partially printed document signed by Bernard as Massachusetts governor and Andrew Oliver as secretary. A manuscript note on the verso, dated 13 November 1760 and signed by Jacob Wendell and James Bowdoin as members of the governor's council, affirms...

GLC02542.31