Colonial Boston document signed by John Scollay
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Title: Partially printed document, completed by hand, signed
Author: Scollay, John
Description: Partially printed document, completed by hand. Approximately 12½x7¾. Docketing on verso.Bond of indebtedness for 225 Pounds "Credit of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay" by “Malachy Salter, Jr., Merchant” (richest colonial Boston trader with Nova Scotia) and “John Scollay, Brazier”, to Benjamin Stedman, Physician. Signed by Salter and Scollay and, as witnesses, Joseph Royall and John Gardner. Old-time Bostonians still remember Scollay Square, in the heart of downtown Boston, as the former center of the red-light district, frequented by prostitutes until it was redeveloped in 1962. Few recall that it was named for a family of notable Scottish immigrants - Real estate developer William Scollay, and his father John Scollay, Chairman of the Boston Board of Selectmen during the American Revolution, leader of the Sons of Liberty, (and father-in-law of Boston Tea Party "Indian" Thomas Melvill, whose grandson would be the author of Moby Dick.) While overshadowed by Founding Fathers like Adams and Hancock, Scollay was nevertheless a key figure in the Revolutionary elite of Boston. It was Scollay to whom Samuel Adams, in 1776, sent congratulations “upon the precipitate flight of the British Army and its adherents from the town of Boston…” Scollay autographs of colonial date are scarce.
Heading: (American Revolution)Place Published: Boston
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Date Published: June 22, 1750
Author: Scollay, John
Description: Partially printed document, completed by hand. Approximately 12½x7¾. Docketing on verso.Bond of indebtedness for 225 Pounds "Credit of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay" by “Malachy Salter, Jr., Merchant” (richest colonial Boston trader with Nova Scotia) and “John Scollay, Brazier”, to Benjamin Stedman, Physician. Signed by Salter and Scollay and, as witnesses, Joseph Royall and John Gardner. Old-time Bostonians still remember Scollay Square, in the heart of downtown Boston, as the former center of the red-light district, frequented by prostitutes until it was redeveloped in 1962. Few recall that it was named for a family of notable Scottish immigrants - Real estate developer William Scollay, and his father John Scollay, Chairman of the Boston Board of Selectmen during the American Revolution, leader of the Sons of Liberty, (and father-in-law of Boston Tea Party "Indian" Thomas Melvill, whose grandson would be the author of Moby Dick.) While overshadowed by Founding Fathers like Adams and Hancock, Scollay was nevertheless a key figure in the Revolutionary elite of Boston. It was Scollay to whom Samuel Adams, in 1776, sent congratulations “upon the precipitate flight of the British Army and its adherents from the town of Boston…” Scollay autographs of colonial date are scarce.
Heading: (American Revolution)Place Published: Boston
Publisher:
Date Published: June 22, 1750
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Some edge wear, creased, browning; very good.
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Colonial Boston document signed by John Scollay
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