Manuscript resolution not to admit officers appointed

by John Temple, Esq. 1732-1798 by Rhode Island colonial officials

$275 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

N.p., n.d. Rhode Island: ca. 1760s. . Single sheet approx. 7½ x 6 , 16 lines in ink; slightly browned, very good. John Temple, a British Imperial official, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1732, the son of Robert Temple, a colonial entrepreneur, and Mehitable Nelson. He grew up on the family Ten Hills estate near Boston; but spent much of his early adulthood in London, seeking a lucrative appointment through Richard Grenville, Earl Temple, and his brother George Grenville, later

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