ANTIQUE DOCUMENT SIGNED by REV. WAR GENERAL CHAS. CUSHING & ROBERT GOULD SHAW

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c.1804 ANTIQUE BOSTON LEGAL DOCUMENT SIGNED by ROBERT GOULD SHAW & CHARLES CUSHING
This partially printed legal document from Boston is dated January 27, 1804.
The document has to do with the bankrupt estate of Boston merchant John Nicholson.
The estate owed money to Robert Gould Shaw and others and is signed by Shaw.
Robert Goud Shaw 1776-1853) was a wealthy Boston Merchant who made his money in the maritime trade, brokerage and real estate. Shortly before his death in 1853 he urged two of his grandsons to use their family money & influence against slavery. Ten years later one of the grandsons Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, would die a hero at Fort Wagner as the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first documented African American Regiment formed in a free state.
The document is also signed twice by former Revolutionary War General
Charles Cushing (1733-1810).
During the Revolutionary War, when the Maine Militia was reorganized, Cushing was appointed to command the Easter Regiment, with the title of Colonel. In January 1777, he was made Brigadier for Lincoln County. He made himself especially obnoxious to the loyalists by his vigilance in the discharge of this duties as sheriff and military officer, and towards the close of the war, in 1781, he (then Brigadier General) was seized at night by a loyalist party under John Jones; a violent Tory, taken from his bed, compelled to hurry on his clothes and was carried away to the British Army at Castine, where he was retained for some time as a prisoner. He removed to Boston and was Clerk of Courts in Suffolk and Nantucket Counties in 1783, until his death in 1810.
The document printed on hand laid paper measures 8 x 12 1/2 inches. There are some chips and tears on th edges otherwise this 217 year old document is in good condition!
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