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Content: A. D. S. At the bottom of the page is written the order, signed by Governor William Burnet, New York, Oct. 6, 1727, for issuing a licence to Seymour. 1 p. Fo

Abstract

Affidavit as to his legal practice: reciting that he was apprenticed Mar. 25, 1717, by his guardian John Tobe of the Frith in Ledbury, Herefordshire, to Thomas Brydges of Old Colwall, Herefordshire, in consideration of £80, for five years; at the expiration of his time he stayed eleven months with Brydges, then practiced for a year and a half at Mr. Tobe's, and since then in Bermuda for about three years.

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NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11868616
Archives ID: 927
Emmet number: EM. 1718
Archives EAD ID: 275742
Archives Components ID: 801
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b65055f0-6a40-0139-1f41-0242ac110002

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