Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800 to The Province of Massachusetts Bay

GLC05535

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GLC#
GLC05535
Type
Documents
Date
April 7, 1770
Author/Creator
Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800
Title
to The Province of Massachusetts Bay
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
3 p. : docket ; Height: 29.8 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
Primary time period
American Revolution, 1763-1783
Sub-Era
Road to Revolution

Signed by Massachusetts commissioner Brattle and countersigned by Artemas Ward (four times), Samuel Crosby, and Edward Flindt as Selectmen of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Provides list of expenses for the poor transient William Quirk, including room and board and "sundry articles." From docket the cost appears to be slighty over 15 pounds. Brattle says "I apprehend the charges reasonable." Note provided by the selectman says Quirk was from Newfoundland and arrived in their town under "Indigent Circumustances." Brattle became a Loyalist general during the Revolution, while Ward led the revolutionary forces outside Boston in 1775.

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