Records of Middlesex County criminal cases kept by Justice of the Peace Abiel Heywood at Concord, 1798-1823.

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Records of Middlesex County criminal cases kept by Justice of the Peace Abiel Heywood at Concord, 1798-1823.

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Some of the records include reckonings of court costs and of fines.

1 v. ; 30 cm.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Heywood, Abiel, 1759-1839

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Massachusetts. Justice of the Peace (Middlesex County)

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Abiel Heywood, Town Clerk of Concord from 1796 to 1834, was made a Justice of the Peace in 1797 by Governor Sumner. Dr. Heywood also served as a justice for the Middlesex County Court of Sessions until the Court of Sessions was superseded by the court of the Middlesex County Commissioners (1827), and for the Court of Common Pleas at times when the powers of the Court of Sessions were transferred to the Court of Common Pleas. From the description of Records of Middlesex County crimina...