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SIGNER SIGNS AS JUSTICE OF PEACE: HIS FIRST PUBLIC JOB
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HART, JOHN. Autograph Document Signed, as Justice of the Peace, a leaf from an
account book, listing the amounts paid to Constable Thomas Hunt and other payments
and approving the amount remaining due. Countersigned by Justice of the Peace Cornelius
Ringo. 6x6 inches; ink identification in an unknown hand written vertically in left margin,
faint scattered staining, few scattered modern newsprint remnants adhered to recto (not
affecting text or signature), collector’s ink stamp on verso (“Dr. Max Thorek”). (MRS)
[Hopewell], 14 March 1760
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. . .We the Justice of the Peace whose Names are Subscribed allow of the . . . accounts as Enter’d and
find that there is due to them the Sum of £8.10.10.”