1751, William Tisdale, Harvard College Tuition bond, Jonathan Hastings

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This is an original document, dated 1751, where Ebenezer Tisdale of Lebanon, Connecticut, blacksmith, is boung to Jonathan Hastings, Steward of Harvard College, for tuition for his son William Tisdale, now a student at Harvard....dated 1751. Document is 8x9, overall very good condition.
William Tisdale, silversmith, judge of the admiralty court for the Port of Beaufort, and engraver of the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina, was born the second son of Ebenezer and Hope Basset Tisdale of Lebanon, Conn. Following his brother Nathan (A.B. 1749) to Harvard, he entered with the class of 1755 on a Hollis Scholarship. Tisdale was, according to classmate John Adams, one of the best students in that exceptional class, but he left college before the end of his first year. His connection with North Carolina was fostered by the relationship he had with the Trumbull family of Lebanon with whom he corresponded for some twenty years.
During the late 1770s Tisdale was occupied not only with the practice of his artistic trade but also with affairs of a public nature, which took up much of his time. On 11 Mar. 1777 he was appointed a justice of the peace, and the following 30 April Governor Richard Caswell signed his commission as judge of the admiralty court for the Port of Beaufort. However, in 1781 a petition was presented to the Assembly to suspend him as judge of the court of admiralty, and in July 1781 Tisdale was so suspended until the charges of bribery and corruption were refuted. The committee of propositions and grievances recommended that the resolution of July 1781 be rescinded, but the house rejected this recommendation. On 17 Apr. 1782 he sent an address to the legislature asking it to reconsider its earlier vote, but once again he was refused. Finally, on 5 Nov. 1784, his resignation as justice of the peace was accepted by the legislature. Yet the next year Tisdale was elected a member of the General Assembly representing New Bern and was subsequently appointed to several committees.
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