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Receipt and warrant for Massachusetts state pension payment to Anthony Vassall Digital

Collection — item: 1Identifier: HUY 218
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Receipt from Anthony (Tony) Vassall to Massachusetts for £12 payment in full, acknowledged by his mark, an elongated “T,” on April 21, 1792. The inscription dockets the verso of a warrant signed by Massachusetts Governor John Hancock in Boston on February 7, 1792, ordering state treasurer Alexander Hodgdon to pay Anthony Vassall the sum of £12 for one year’s pension, to be disbursed from the proceeds of the estate of absentee John Vassall of Cambridge.