Lemuel Shaw Papers, n.d.

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Lemuel Shaw Papers, n.d.

Photostat copy of commission as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1830).

1 envelope.

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Shaw, Lemuel, 1781-1861

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Chief justice of Massachusetts, 1830-1860. His daughter Elizabeth married the author Herman Melville. From the description of ALS : Boston, to Joseph B. Felt, 1834 Oct. 14. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122475395 Shaw was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1830-1860). Webster and Parkman were on the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the time of Parkman's murder. From the description of Sentence of John W. Webster...