17 October 1781
Hancock, John, 1737-1793
Document signed
Title: [Appointment of Norton Quincy as Justice of the Peace].
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Hancock, appointed Justice of the Peace, Norton Quincy, for the County of Suffolk. The order gives a general sketch of the duties of Quincy's new office. Partially printed. Accompanied by frilled paper seal of the State that protrudes from the broadsheet on the upper left side.
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