Request to the supreme authority of Cuba, 1809.

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Request to the supreme authority of Cuba, 1809.

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As secretary to the governor of Massachusetts until 1861, the state secretary kept copies of executive correspondence. This 1809 draft letter from Gov. Christopher Gore to the Marquis de Somoruelos, governor of Cuba, requests that James Drake, John Murdock, and John Reynolds of Havana be ordered to take depositions from Felix Quintera, Mates Leal, and Madame de St. George in the case of Jonathan Amory, appellant, and Nathaniel Fellows, appellee, before the Supreme Judicial Court.

1 folder ; 36 x 43 cm.

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