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33 form of the law in that case made & 33 provided.
James Wintrhop Just Peace
NB. Mr. Harris librarian of the University, Mr. Shapleigh the butler, Mr. Phelps a resident graduate with others were present
Certified to Town Clerk
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Middlesex [sc?]. Be it remembred, that on this twenty fifth day of February in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & nine ty two Elijah Tolman of Newton in said County housewright is brought before me James Winthrop Esq, one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in & for said County by John Stone Jr, one of the deputy sheriffs of said County by warrant issued by me the said Justice on the 23rd day of said February against the said Elijah, for that he the said Elijah with did on the tenth day of said February at Newton aforesaid, against the peace of said Commonwealth & the law & dignity thereon, with a person who called
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34 himself John Ranger of Boston, wickedly & fraudulently conspire to cheat Daniel Hapgood of Stowe in said County yeoman of the value of an house of the value of seventeen pounds eight shillings under pretence of a bargain & did actually cheat him thereof as set forth in a complaint by the said Daniel this da on said 23d. day of said February exhibited on oath before me the said Justice: Wherefore I the said Justice demanding of the said Elijah now present before me, whether he is guilty or not guilty of the charge contained in said warrant now read to him; he the said Elijah replies & says that he is not guilty; whereupon the only witness present in court is examined on oath, & testifies concerning the bargain but does not attribut mention any persuasion of the said Elijah to induce the said Denial to conclude the bargain with said John Ran
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35 ger: Therefore it appears to me the said Justice that said complaint is not supported; It is therefore considered by me the said Justice that the said Elijah be discharged.
James Winthrop Just. Peace
Middlesex Sc. Be it remembered that on this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven Hundred & Nintety Three James Mann of Mason in the State of New Hampshire & Lydia Cook of Cambridge in said County of Middelsex both personally appearing before me James Winthrop Esq, one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in said County, & presenting to me the said Justice certificates from the town clerks of said towns Mason & Cambridge respectively setting forth that the intentions of said James & Lydia have been published according to law
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36 have been in each of said towns, & they requesting to be now joined in wedlock; it is therefore considered by me the said Justice that they be joined accordingly, & I do declare them to be husband & wife according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
James Winthrop {Justice of the Peace} testified to Town Clerk 27 May 1794
Middlesex Sc. Be it remembered, that on the third day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & Ninety five, Levi Drinkwater master & Joseph Stadeford or Sturtevant mariner of a coasting sloop reputed to belong to the President & Fellows of Harvard College are brought before me which sloop now lies at the wharf of William Winthrop Esquire of Cambridge in said County, are brought before me James Winthrop
