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- GLC#
- GLC05666.01
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- circa May 10, 1785
- Author/Creator
- Cooper, William, 1720-1809
- Title
- Instructions from Boston to its Representatives in State Legislature
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 37.2 cm, Width: 30.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
This document is a printed sheet with a manuscript note at top containing information and instructions about a meeting of those who represent the Town of Boston. The note concerns State Legislators and mentions John Hancock, Samuel Allyn Otis, Caleb Davis, Thomas Dawes, Samuel Breck, Benjamin Austin, and Benjamin Hitchborn. Annotated by William Cooper as Town Clerk. Docketed on verso.
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