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Barbados. A collection of autograph letters and original documents relating to the Island of Barbados in the 18th century, ca. 1730-1778. HLS MS 1047, Harvard Law School Library.
A miscellaneous collection of letters and legal documents relating to Barbados, especially prize causes, inheritance and enslaved persons. Contents include an autograph letter, dated 4 June 1778, from James Sheppard to John Brawthwaite referring to the American Revolution.
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Barbados. Laws, etc. An Act of Assembly of Barbadoes to regulate sales at outcry and the proceedings of persons executing the office of Provost Marshall General of the said island and their under officers, 1763. HLS MS 1046, Harvard Law School Library.
An Act of Assembly of Barbadoes to regulate sales at outcry and the proceedings of persons executing the office of Provost Marshall General of the said island and their under officers (leaf 1) ; A state of some matters relative to the office of Provost Marshall, and to the passing of this bill...
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Bills of lading for the ship Lydia, 1766. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
Printed and engraved bills of lading, filled out in manuscript, dated 30 April to 7 May 1766, for goods shipped from London to Boston, Massachusetts.
Dane, Nathan, 1752-1835. Papers, 1780-1835. Quincy, Josiah, 30 October 1832. 1-40, Harvard Law School Library.
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Docket and fees book / prepared by the law office of Timothy Bigelow. 1791-1797. HLS MS 4235, Volume 1, Harvard Law School Library.
Records of cases heard in the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas (Middlesex Co.) in Cambridge, Mass., and the New Hampshire Inferior Court of Common Pleas (Hillsborough Co.) in Amherst, N.H and matters brought before justices of the peace. Records identify the litigants, with some notes on fees...
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Docket and fees book / prepared by the law office of Timothy Bigelow. 1791-1797. HLS MS 4235, Volume 2, Harvard Law School Library.
Records of cases heard in the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas (Middlesex Co.) in Cambridge, Mass., and the New Hampshire Inferior Court of Common Pleas (Hillsborough Co.) in Amherst, N.H and matters brought before justices of the peace. Records identify the litigants, with some notes on fees...
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Essex County (Mass.). Court of General Sessions. Sentence for theft, 1773-1774. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
The sentencing of John Corney, convicted of theft, dated July 1773. On verso of document is a note of payment of costs, dated August 1774, signed by sheroff Richard Saltonstall.
Godfrey, George, 1720-1793. Papers of George Godfrey, 1739-1792. HLS MS 1380, Harvard Law School Library.
Contains summaries of cases citing cause of action, plaintiffs and defendants, sentencing, and costs incurred.
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Hale, John, 1762-1796. Lists of law books belonging to John Hale, ca. 1788-1796. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
Consists of 4 lists: an invoice for a shipment of books from Ireland dated 1788; "Prime cost of books in Dublin"; "list of John Hale Esq's books in the office"; "List of books belonging to the estate of John Hale Esq. deceased."
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Hayes, Luke. Pre-nuptial agreement, Farmington, Connecticut, 1698. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
A pre-nuptial agreement made by Hayes to his future wife, Mardlyn Freeman, a widow who owned property. Luke disclaimed all rights to her estate, except for the improvement of her lands. He further agreed that the estate be given to her son, James Street, when he reached the age of twenty-one.