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Paine, Robert Treat [Gov and people vs. Henry Laughton]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09293 Author/Creator: Paine, Robert Treat Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 11 July 1775 Pagination: 1 p. Order a Copy

As Massachusetts Attorney General, authorizes the seizure of properties belonging to an absentee Tory, Henry Laughton, "late of Boston."

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