Argument of Anthony Checkley, counsel for Nathaniel Paddie, in Henchman v. Paddie, on Henchman's appeal from the County Court to the Court of Assistants, Massachusetts [manuscript], 1679/80 March 2.

Duglas, Thomas, 17th cent.

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Massachusetts. Court of Assistants

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Assistants, also designated judicially in their own towns as magistrate, with powers of justice of the peace, were chosen annually by the General Court of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, the colony chartered by the English Crown in 1629. They met separately from the General Court as a whole (i.e., including its freemen--or, from 1634, their elected deputies), constituting with the governor and deputy governor a Court of Assistants. In 1634 this body's legislative powers were c...

Checkley, Anthony, fl. 1680.

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Daniel Henchman and Nathaniel Paddie were rival claimants to the estate of Thomas Duglas, deceased. From the description of Argument of Anthony Checkley, counsel for Nathaniel Paddie, in Henchman v. Paddie, on Henchman's appeal from the County Court to the Court of Assistants, Massachusetts [manuscript], 1679/80 March 2. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 428976056 ...

Henchman, Daniel, 1689-1761

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Daniel Henchman (1689-1761), the Boston, Mass. bookseller, was the son of Hezekiah ( -1694) and Abigail Henchman ( - ). Hezekiah was a son of Capt. Daniel Henchman ( -1685), a school teacher, fighter in King Philip's War, and one of the founders of Worcester, Mass. Daniel Henchman may have served an apprenticeship with a Boston bookseller, and by July, 1712, when the earliest ledger in this collection begins, he was in business for himself as a merchant. His business was...

Paddie, Nathaniel, fl. 1680

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