Salem Elite, 1789
Manuscript Document, signed in secretarial hand by all three as court-appointed referees, denying one “Woodbridge” any title or claim to lands mentioned in the “Tess declaration”.
Salem, Mass: June 7, 1789.
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
One page, on single folio sheet (bottom half torn away); docketed on verso with address panel “To Oliver Parsons Esq. / President of the Board of Health / Salem”. 6-1/2 x 7-5/8 inches. Salem Elite, 1789. Lower half of sheet torn away, without apparent loss. In clue morocco-backed cloth folder.
Item #247287
George Cabot (1751-1823) was an American merchant, seaman, and politician, born in Salem, who became a member of the Masschusetts Provincial Congress (1775-1776); delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1777; the Director of the Massachusetts Bank in 1784; delegate to the state convention that adopted the United States Constitution in 1787; and a member of the US Senate from Massachusetts from 1791-1796.
John Choate was a judge representative to the Masschusetts State Legislature from 1781-1788.
