Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814 [Legal document pertaining to the confiscation of William Walter's property]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00133 Author/Creator: Paine, Robert T., 1731-1814 Place Written: Suffice, Massachusetts Type: Autograph document signed Date: 5 February 1780 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 32 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
On behalf of the states of Massachusetts, Treat, the state attorney general, writes to the Justices of the Superior Court to argue the case for confiscating a tory's property in Boston. Claims Walter "levied War and Conspired to levy War against the government and People of this Province Colony and State." Describes him as an absentee loyalists whose messuage and land in Boston were confiscated on 20 April 1775 according to "An Act for Confiscating the Estates of certain persons Commonly called absentees." Argues that the property should "accrue to the sole use and benefit of the Government & people." Asks the court's advice and for the "due process of Law in his behalf to be made."
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