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JOSEPH DUDLEY

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 350.00 USD
JOSEPH DUDLEY
(1647 - 1720) Colonial Governor, appointed president of New England by James II, a member of Andros' council and detested by the colonists for his role in that administration, Governor of Massachusetts (1702-15). L.S. "Dudley" as Governor of Massachusetts, 1p. legal folio, Boston, July 9, 1703 enclosing a document relative to "...Francis Wainwright Esqr; tooke the Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy repeated and subscribed the Declaration in the sd. Act mentioned And also tooke the Oath of a Justice of peace." Silked, usual folds, light marginal chips, else very good.

Estimate: $250 - 350.

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