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Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant Esq. (1731-1791)

Haverhill

Biography: NATHANIEL PEASLEE SARGEANT (1731-1791). Harvard 1750,. Admitted attorney, SCJ, Oct. 1764; barrister, June 1767. Practiced in Haverhill. Appointed Justice of the Peace, 1767. Delegate to Second Provincial Congress, 177 5. Represented Haverhill in the House, 1776. Declined appointment to the Superior Court, Oct. 1775, but accepted appointment, Sept. 1776. Delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1779. Appointed Chief Justice, 1 790. 12 Sibley-Shipton, Harvard Graduates 574-580.
Adams, John, L. Kinvin Wroth, and Hiller B. Zobel. Legal Papers of John Adams. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965.

Comments:

Nancy vs. James Parker Jr. and Dinah Parker (1771) Attorney for Defendant
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Attorney for Plaintiff
Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Attorney for original Plaintiff on Appeal
Bristol vs. John Osgood (1773) Attorney

Sources

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• John Adams Diary entry November 5, 1766. Mentions observing Jenny vs Slew appeal. Describes N.P Sargeant.
  Citation: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017. http://www.masshist.org/apde2/

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• Dated Sept. 9, 1771. Copy of ECCP writ for Casar vs. Taylor.
  Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.

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• ECCP September 1771 Record of Caesar vs. Taylor, Docket #51. Finding is for Plaintiff for 25 pounds, 13 shillings and eight pence. Defendant files an Appeal to the SCJ.
  Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.

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• Dated September 24, 1771. Judgement by ECCP of 25 pounds 13 shillings and eight pence to Casar.
  Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.

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• Dated September 30 1771. Bond for Appeal to SCJ.
  Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.

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• ECCP Record of December 1773, the final session that both parties in Bristol vs. Osgood failed to appear.
  Citation: Bristol vs John Osgood (1773) Essex Court Common Pleas December 1773 Record, 7.