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Title

Sketch of Joshua Scottow, with his Petition to the General Court of Massachusetts (1906)

Authors

Henry Herbert Edes, Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Paul Royster (transcribed and deposited by), University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

October 2005

Comments

Published in the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. 10, Transactions 1904-1906. Materials presented at a meeting of the Society, April 1906.

A brief biographical sketch of Joshua Scottow, together with various legal petitions and proceedings relative to his suits against Nicholas Shapleigh of Kittery, Edward Rishworth of Yorke, and Samuel Wheelewright of Wells, regarding his conduct in the defense of Maine settlements in the Indian wars, 1676-1680.