Papers, 1759-1823; bulk: 1759-1773.

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Papers, 1759-1823; bulk: 1759-1773.

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A small collection of manuscripts related to Judge Jedediah Foster of Brookfield, Mass., including a petition to him from David Smith, a prisoner accused of murder, requesting removal to Hartford for trial (1775); an undated list of men in Foster's regiment of Mass. Militia; and several receipts for pensions and other payments made by the provincial treasurer through Foster. Also, samples of cloth to be used for Col. Joseph Dwight, Foster's father-in-law's, clothing.

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Massachusetts. Militia. Jedidiah Foster's Regiment.

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Foster, Jedediah, 1726-1779.

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Smith, David.

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Dwight, Joseph, 1702-1765

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Joseph Dwight was born in 1702, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, the son of Henry Dwight and Lydia Hawley. He graduated from Harvard in 1722 and worked as a merchant until 1731, at which point he began pursuing a career in law. After his admission to the Massachusetts Bar Association in 1733, he moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts. The Worcester County Common Court of Pleas appointed him a judge in 1739, and he went on to become an eleven-times member of the Massachusetts Colonial Council...