- GLC#
- GLC03002.05
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1767/09/10
- Author/Creator
- Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780
- Title
- [Order to sheriffs, deputies & constables to arrest Asten for murdering Indians]
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 33 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Signed as Chief Justice of Massachusetts, with the last paragraph in his hand. Orders to find and arrest Daniel Asten and Francis Douglass as "the Perpetrators of the murder and robbery," against certain Indians. In the document Asten's name is spelled Austin.
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