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September 29th, 1796, Manuscript Document Signed, “John Gaston” as Justice of the Peace and also by the Selectmen of the Town of Sterling, Connecticut, Ordering Constables to Remove a Woman Out of Their Town, Very Fine. This unusual and rare content original 8” x 14” Document is dated in 1796 at Sterling, Connecticut, where the Selectmen have requested that John Gaston go and find Marcey Gaumet, Stranger and Single Woman and escort her out of town and back to West Greenwich, Rhode Island, where she belongs... (Signed) Archibald Gordon, Noah Cole, Philip Potter and Archibald Dorrance as Selectmen, and by John Gaston as Constable. Document is completely original, nicely written in bold brown ink upon period laid paper with expected folds, some tone and in overall nice condition for display. Sterling is a town in Windham County, Connecticut. The town was Incorporated in 1794 following approval of the CT Assembly, and was carved from northern part of the Town of Voluntown. Le Comte de Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, marched through and camped in the town during the American Revolutionary War, while on his way from landing at Narragansett Bay to join George Washington's forces on the Hudson River in 1781. A cotton mill was first established in Sterling in 1800. Of note, Charles Dow, of Dow Jones fame, was born in this community.
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