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Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th- and 18th-century North America. Each item is connected to countless stories—of lives lived quietly and extravagantly, of encounters peaceful and volatile, and of places near and far – providing an opportunity to travel back in time, to rethink familiar stories, and to discover new ones.
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Proceedings against Ana de Narváez, 29 July 1577-1578. 1-1, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
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Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Sale of an office in the Casa de Monedato Melchor de Cuellar and his successors, 29 January 1627. 1-9, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
Collaboration is restricted.
Mexican Legal Documents, 1577-1805. Treasurer of the Casa de Moneda, Capitán don Joseph Diego de Medina y Saravia, complains of monetary losses due to the high silver content of the "cresado," a coin, 1729-1730. 2-4, Harvard Law School Library.
This collection contains various legal documents from colonial Mexico, from the 16th to the early 19th century. Included are proceedings of the Mexican Inquisition, as well items related to the business of the Casa de Moneda (Mint) of Mexico and Roman Catholic Church. Historical/Biographical...
Collaboration is restricted.
Middlesex County (Mass.). Warrant to attach goods of Abel Taylor, 1783. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
A warrant to seize nine pounds, the equal in property, or the body of Abel Taylor of Stow, to answer charges of debt brought by Nathan Smith of Weston.
Middlesex County (Mass.). Warrant to attach goods of Timothy Phelps and John Farwell, 1773. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
A warrant for 20 pounds, equal property, or the bodies of Phelps, a cooper, and Farwell a husbandman, both of Harvard to answer a charge of debt made by Nicholas Patterson of Shirley.
![North Carolina. General Assembly. [Property act], 1787. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.](https://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/iiif/51633476/full/100,/0/default.jpg)
North Carolina. General Assembly. [Property act], 1787. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
Copy of act pertaining to taking of property for failure to pay taxes. Signed: Alexander Martin and John Sitgreaves.
Parsons, Theophilus, 1750-1813. Papers of Theophilus Parsons, 1778-1811. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
Parsons practiced law in Massachusetts from 1774, was active in discussions of the new constitution proposed for Massachusetts (1778), maintained a law practice in Boston (1800-1806), and served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1806-1813).
Parsons, Theophilus, 1750-1813. Precedents book of Massachusetts law, 1775. HLS MS 1091, Harvard Law School Library.
A commonplace book kept by Parsons outling various legal issues including getting a negro with child, slander, deceit, bills of exchange, debt,assault and battery, quantum meruit by a physician, ejectment, covenant, and liberty of the yard. Many of these topics include also forms of...
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Plumer, William, 1759-1850. Receipts, 1798, 1799, 1809. Small Manuscript Collection, Harvard Law School Library.
Handwritten receipts for fees and debts collected. Biographical Notes Plumer served in the New Hampshire legislature (1785-1786, 1788, 1790-1791, 1797-1800), the U.S. Senate (1802-1807) and as governor of New Hampshire (1812-1813, 1816-1819).
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Recovery in Lythall and Hooper vs. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Natives of New England, 1656, November 28. Deeds 820, Harvard Law School Library.
Exemplification under the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of a recovery suffered in Michaelmas term, 1656, between Thomas Lythall and John Hooper, complainants, and the President and Society for the Propagation of the Gospell in New England of 3 messuages with their appurtenances in the parish...