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Handwriting Samples ||facing page|| 126

An unusual example of “real evidence” introduced by the respective parties in King v. Stewart,  No. 2. The upper document, introduced by Stewart, is a receipt in his hand; the lower document, introduced by King, is the threatening note.
From the Suffolk Files, courtesy of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
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