Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
British royal governor of colonial Massachusetts from 1771 to 1774 and a prominent Loyalist in the years before the American Revolution. Partly-printed DS, signed “Th. Hutchinson,” one page both sides, 9.5 x 15, January 15, 1772. A Commission for Caleb Cushing, Andrew Oliver, William Brown, and Peter Frye as justices of the common pleas, signed at the top under the crisp paper seal by Hutchinson. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, professional reinforcement along central horizontal fold, and some scattered light soiling, toning, and foxing.
Caught again between his loyalty to the crown and his understanding of his fellow colonists, Hutchinson had the grave misfortune of serving as acting governor during the 1770 Boston Massacre, and had to deal with the aftermath when frightened British soldiers fired on a rock-hurling mob. Hutchinson moved the soldiers to Castle William in Boston Harbor, a decision that resulted in a relatively peaceful three-year lull—a period during which he was appointed governor and made these appointments to the Court of Common Pleas. The judicial branch was the second highest common law court in the English legal system. The same year that Hutchinson made these appointments, he also gloated about the political problems swirling around John Hancock and his political allies, at one point writing a British lord that people were growing weary of Hancock and his political motives—a fact that would be proven untrue with the coming revolution.
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