Documents and Letters, American, Six (1717-1813)

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Documents and Letters, American, Six (1717-1813) Including a land deed from Lexington in 1717, signed by Samuel Gookin, Justice of the Peace, and members of the Winship family; two late eighteenth-century letters written from Staten Island; an I.O.U. from 1784; a 1726 document concerned with a fornication case brought against Lydia Wyman of Woburn, Massachusetts, ("big with a bastard child"),with notes of two continuances on the verso, and a tally of the twelve guilty votes against her noted on the back; one letter from 1813 about some bad-tasting fish signed by J. Warren, and a title page removed from a book with his signature.
Estimate $500-700

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