To the printer in Essex. : As I have met with what I call hard treatment ... I now intreat an appeal to the publick in your next news-paper ..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Symonds, Francis, 1718?-1775, author.

Contributor:

Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42282.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Claims against decedents' estates--Massachusetts.

Claims against decedents' estates.

Debtor and creditor--Massachusetts.

Debtor and creditor.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages))

Place of Publication:

[Salem, Mass.] : [Printed by Samuel Hall], [1771]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Concerning a debt owed by David H. and the problems in collecting that debt from Sarah H., administratrix of David's estate.

Signed on pages [2]: An enemy to unfaithfulness and deceit, and a lover of justice, and all that sincerely aim at it. Attributed by Bristol to Francis Symonds, a Danvers, Mass., innkeeper.

Dated May 1771 by Ford. Presumably addressed to Samuel Hall, printer of the Essex gazette, Salem, Mass., and the only printer active in Essex County at this time. Border ornament (Reilly 542) is identified as one used by Hall in 1771.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 42282).

Cited in:

Bristol B3392

Shipton and Mooney 42282

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1599

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