Know ye, that we have assigned and constituted ... with the advice and consent of the Council, constitute and appoint John K. Smith ... to be one of the Justices to keep Peace in our County of Cumberland : for the term of seven years ....

Know ye, that we have assigned and constituted ... with the advice and consent of the Council, constitute and appoint John K. Smith ... to be one of the Justices to keep Peace in our County of Cumberland : for the term of seven years ....

Commission of John Kilby Smith

Boston 1799

[1] leaf ; 44 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1976.72.7 MB

At head of title: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To all unto whom these presents shall come, Greeting
Dated at Boston, the 3d day of July Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine ...
On verso: Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Oct. 27 [or 17/] 1799 / Personally appeared John K. Smith Esq. and took and subscribed the oaths and declaration prescribed by the constitution of the Commonwealth .... before John Lewis [and] Wm. Gorham
Partially printed document
Seal of Massachusetts at upper left.
Vertical tear along earlier fold.
Governor Increase Sumner had died in June, 1799; Gill, the Lieutenant Governor, succeeded him.
Smith was an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.

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