Newburyport, Massachusetts (1784) Warrant for Town Meeting.

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Newburyport, Massachusetts (1784) Warrant for Town Meeting.
One paper folio sheet, with writing on both sides, signed by the Selectmen of Newburyport: Hodge, Coats, Coombs, Bartlett, and Wigglesworth, old folds, some ink transfer, 8 x 13 in.
This notice of May 17, 1784 concerns an impending town meeting planned for August 17 of the same year. It mentions the election of a representative in the General Court and a town moderator and four other agenda items, including a plan for the poor, the construction of a work house, a possible real estate dispute, and whether any action should be taken because Ebenezer Morrison built his ceramics building ("pot house") on the town's land, and whether the town should continue to allow him to dig clay near the burying ground.
Estimate $1,200-1,500

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