Adams, John, 1735-1826 [Legal document to the Justices of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace at Charlestown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05609 Author/Creator: Adams, John, 1735-1826 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document signed Date: 30 November 1767 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30 cm, Width: 18.2 cm Order a Copy
Countersigned by "Jon. Sewall." Legal document created by Adams in defense of the town of Stoneham, Massachusetts. The town of Framingham, Massachusetts had removed James and Rebekah Holden and their daughter Naomi as poor residents who could not support themselves and sent them back to Stoneham, where the officials of Framingham said they were from. Adams says the Holden family was not from Stoneham and that the town should not have to take them in as a charity case. Sewall's note on verso says that Selectmen of Framingham state Stoneham is the home of the Holden family.
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