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Title: Broadside over the printed name of John Hancock calling for Selectmen in the town of Wrentham to vote for Representatives to the General Court of Massachusetts, signed in ink by John Avery Jr. as Secretary Author: Place: Boston Publisher: Date: 1793 Description: Printed broadside, with affixed paper seal. 34x21 cm (13½x8¼"). Rare broadside, the text beginning "Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To the Selectmen of the Town of [Wrentham] in the first district, viz. Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex. Greeting. These are in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to will and require you, in manner as the law directs for calling town meetings, to cause the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of [Wrentham]... to assemble on Monday the first day of April next, to give in their votes for one representative that is an inhabitant in either of the said Counties..." The lower half of the broadside is a certification of the returns (Samuel Holten received 1100 votes, Benjamin Austin Jr. 1260). OCLC/WorldCat lists no examples of this particular broadside, but it does list one copy of a similar one from 1792, for the town of Topsfield. Lot Amendments Condition: Old folds with wear along them, some light foxing; very good. Item number: 283324