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Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., 163-1641
NoteBook Kept by Thomas Lechford Esq 1631641 Author:Thomas Lechford Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641. 512 pp. 5,000 entry Every Name Index; Intro by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, CG. 1988 (1885). Thomas Lechford (c1590-1644?) was Boston's first lawyer. The Note-Book contains a multitude of wills, contracts, deeds, estate settlements, letters, legal petitions, and the like, draw... more »n by, for, and about the inhabitants of Boston at that time. Thus it is an invaluable source for Bay Colony records early in the Pilgrim Century.« less