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Hancock, John, 1737-1793 [Resolution of Massachusetts Legislature]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04432 Author/Creator: Hancock, John, 1737-1793 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Document signed Date: 19 June 1788 Pagination: Order a Copy

Signed approved by Hancock. Also signed by Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the House, and Samuel Phillips, President. Certified as a true copy by John Avery as Secretary. Concerns levying taxes on the polls and estates in Worcester County, Massachusetts in order to discharge debts. One seated engraving of John Hancock included.

Hancock, John, 1737-1797
Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813
Phillips, Samuel, 1715-1790
Avery, John, 1739-1806

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