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Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) [Appointment for Simon Elliot as Major General]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.448.04 Author/Creator: Adams, Samuel (1722-1803) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Printed document signed Date: 18 June 1796 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 23.5 x 36.7 cm. Order a Copy

Appoints Elliot to the rank of Major General in the first division of the Massachusetts Militia. Massachusetts state seal affixed. Signed by Samuel Adams as Governor of Massachusetts. Also signed by John Avery as "Secretary." Docket on verso attests that Elliot took "the oaths and declarations prescribed by the Constitution," and is signed by Samuel Cooper as Justice of the Peace.

John Avery was the Secretary of State of Massachusetts.
Simon Elliot was a Major General in the Massachusetts Militia.

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
Avery, John, 1739-1806
Elliot, Simon, 1762-1832

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