$960
Document, West Roxbury, Massachusetts (1777). Two paper folio sheets, with text on three sides, both skillfully silked, with small corner losses neatly made up, 8 x 13 in. On May 28, 1777, the second and third parishes of Roxbury petitioned the Massachusetts House of Representatives in an attempt to establish a separate town. The new town goes unnamed in this particular document, but a similar petition to the General Court from the same year asked that the new town be called Washington. Neither body took any action, and the two parishes languished as an unhappy appendage to Roxbury, the inhabitants greatly inconvenienced by the distance to town meetings, until West Roxbury was finally incorporated in 1851.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
