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- GLC#
- GLC02140
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- October 31, 1760
- Author/Creator
- Bernard, Francis, 1712-1779
- Title
- [Appointment of Charles Cushing Sheriff of Lincoln County, Massachusetts].
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Colonization and Settlement, 1585-1763
- Sub-Era
- The Thirteen Colonies
Also signed by Secretary of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Andrew Oliver. On 9 November 1760 Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Thomas Hutchinson warrants that Cushing has taken the oaths required for the office. With paper seal of the province. Sir Francis Bernard was Royal Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1760 to 1769. One bust engraving of Francis Bernard and one bust engraving of Thomas Hutchinson included.
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