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Samuel and Edward Merrill family fonds

  • ON00009 F 1028
  • Fonds
  • 1800-1904

Fonds consists mainly of records and copies of records connected with Edward Merrill's legal practice. Included is correspondence relating to legal matters, and also includes letters of appointment to Samuel Merrill. Legal correspondence is that of Edward Merrill regarding cases tried before him, petitions, the and position of County Court Judges. Correspondence has been arranged chronologically. Fonds also includes various legal records, including affidavits, agreements, bonds, releases and elections, wills and estate books, and other records. Legal records have been arranged alphabetically. Also included are miscellaneous records, including poll books for elections in 1828 and 1830, for which Samuel Merrill was Deputy Returning Officer. Attached to these books are several petitions regarding the contesting of the election of 1828.

Merrill, Samuel