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3 December 1722
Sewell, Samuel
Order to search for kidnapped slave signed by Sewall as Chief Justice
Order signed by Sewall as Chief Justice of Massachusetts.
GLC07448
1703/01/26
Livingston, Robert
Account sheet re: fees required as Court Clerk
Bill for £16 1 shilling 4 pence following the trial of "4 negroes for murder." Fees were included for such items as "Suppoena for [11 witnesses]" "Swearing the above 11 witnesses before the grand Jury" "Swearing an officer to keep the Jury" and...
GLC03107.00678
1701/07/14
Riggs, John
to Robert Livingston re: potential embargo
Riggs writes reiterating his fears of a news embargo, stating that no ship with news had arrived at either Boston or New York. He sends word that, contrary to rumors, Virginia Lt. Governor Nicholson is not married, and reports of a Major Hobbes who...
GLC03107.00620
1724/06/20
Burnet, William (1688-1729)
to the Commissioners for Indian Affairs re: admission of new Commissioners
Burnet instructs the Commissioners to receive payment from Philip Livington for the transport of an enslaved person to Captain Hicks in Virginia. He also instructs them to admit Henry Renslaer and David van Dyck as new Commissioners for Indian...
GLC03107.02156
1713
Great Britain. Treaties
The Assiento...for allowing to...Great Britain the liberty of importing negroes
Printed by John Baskett. Missing 1/3 permission leaf. The Assiento Treaty between England and Spain. Spain granted England an official monopoly to supply slaves from Africa to the Spanish New World. Signed on 25 March 1713.
GLC03985.05
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