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WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Signed Document, 1740

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Colonial Commander-in-Chief of British North American Forces

WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Governor of The Bahamas and Colonial Governor of Massachusetts.
Partially Printed Document Signed, "W Shirley" on verso, November 22, 1740, County of Suffolk, 6.75" x 8.25", Choice Very Fine. Being a warrant to "Attach the Goods or Estate of John Sheppard... and for want thereof to take the Body of the said John Sheppard.." and to bring him to the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas at Boston. Shirley practiced law in England for eleven years before migrating to Boston in 1731. He was the king's advocate general in 1734 and governor of Massachusetts in 1741. Pinhole-like separations along folds do not affect Shirley's dark signature.



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