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THB1736 SAMUEL SHUTE Signed Document Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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"Samuel Shute" Historic Royal Governor of Massachusetts
SAMUEL SHUTE (1662-1742), Royal Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1716-1727.
1736-Dated, Manuscript Legal Document Signed, "Samuel Shute", measuring 9.75" x 15.25", 2 pages with several dates including: April 1736, April 21, 1736, June 18, 1736, June 28, 1736, July 1736, and October 26, 1736, Choice Very Fine. The various dates being used on this Document having traveled the world from England to Boston, and to New Hampshire. Being a Legal Document wherein John Yeamans of St. James Parish, Westminster, England, "... Doth hereby make Ordain and in his place and Stead put and constitute William Shirley Esq. Richard Waldron Esq. (etc.) ... Jointly his Joint Attorneys...," (Signed) "John Yeamans", witnessed by "John Moffatt, J. Browne, Joseph Prince, Danl. Marquand". It then traveled to Boston, Massachusetts and there Signed by, "Byfield Lyde" (Clerk) and in the Province of New Hampshire by, "Josh: Peirce" (Recorder), then in Chester, New Hampshire by, "John Boydell, Samuel Ingalls, Ephraim Haseltine, Samuel Emerson, John Calfe, John MacMurphy", further witnessed by Patrick o Meloin and John J Boyd, both have Signed with their "mark". It then travels back to England, where it's Signed by "Samuel Shute", witnessed by "J. Browne, Joseph Prince, John Moffatt, Dan.l Marquand", then Signed again in Boston by "Byfield Lyde" and next in London-Derry, New Hampshire by "John MacMurphy," witnessed by "John Davison, Samuel Brown". Folds with total separation along central horizontal fold, with minor tape repair, several trivial edge tears at top, chipped corner, pinholes, otherwise clean, boldly written and attractive. A rather amazing early Colonial period legal Document.
SAMUEL SHUTE (1662 - 1742) was an English military officer and Royal Governor of the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. After serving in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession, he was appointed by King George I as governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1716. His tenure was marked by virulent disagreements with the Massachusetts assembly on a variety of issues, and by poorly conducted diplomacy with respect to the Native American Wabanaki Confederacy of northern New England that led to Dummer's War (1722-1725).
Although Shute was partly responsible for the breakdown in negotiations with the Wabanakis, he returned to England in early 1723 to procure resolutions to his ongoing disagreements with the Massachusetts assembly, leaving conduct of the war to Lieutenant Governor William Dummer. His protests resulted in the issuance in 1725 of the Explanatory Charter, essentially confirming his position in the disputes with the assembly. He did not return to New England, being replaced as governor in 1728 by William Burnet, and refused to be considered for reappointment after Burnet's sudden death in 1729. Thomas Hutchinson (Massachusetts royal governor in the early 1770s), in his history of Massachusetts, described Shute's tenure as governor as the most contentious since the Antinomian Controversy of the 1630s. [WIKI]
BYFIELD LYDE (1704-1776) was a loyalist and son-in-law of Governor Belcher. He graduated at Harvard College in 1723, was an Addresser of Governor Hutchinson in 1774, and a Protester against the disunionists the same year, and in 1775 an Addresser of General Gage. In 1776 he accompanied the Royal Army to Halifax and died there the same year. [Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., Vols. VII and X.]
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