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  • Collection: The Dean Hansell Collection of Historical Legal Instruments
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1865 June 10

"Right of officers summarily dismissed to demand a trial by Court Martial."
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1865 January 5

Request for Company B of the 31st Regiment of the United States Colored Troops to receive five axes, five axe handles, and five axe slings. R. C. Barrett, who had requested these materials, signed for their receipt at the bottom of the page.
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1865 December 20

Warehouse bond for $5,906.40 with Robert B. Crouch as principal and William Blackburne and Edward H. Bunker as sureties. On the back, it is noted that the bond was cancelled due to the "withdrawal of Oil for exportation and consumption."
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1867 July 1

Promissory note from Joseph Boyd to Mr. Bres and Mr. O'Brien of New Orleans, promising to pay $1,228.10 at 8% annual interest in five months' time. The loan was used to buy supplies for Boyd's cotton plantation.
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1869 May 18

Receipt for a dividend of $20.37 signed by (what appears to be) John Fullerton in Pittsburgh.
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1624

Aphorismes of State situates itself within the Thirty Years’ War, in which Catholics and Protestants fought for religious control throughout the Holy Roman Empire. The Protestant Frederick V, Elector of Palatine, had recently suffered a defeat…
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c. 1748

This instrument notes the entry of a barrel and a quarter of malt in an action of trover, which was the result of a bankruptcy petition against John Raymond.
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1793

Final agreement made in the court of Common Pleas for a transfer of property in Sussex between John Lanham, plainant, and William Pierce, Jane Pierce, Peter Agate, and Jonathan Agate, deforciants.
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ca. 1817/1818

Letter to Shepherd, the Attorney General, from Scott, the first Earl of Eldon, in which Scott offers Shepherd consolation for cases that failed to win convictions.
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1841 May 24

Probate of the will of Elizabeth Mesnard, a widow from Crayford in Kent.
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