1769 New Hampshire, Hunking Wentworth, Revolutionary War Patriot Signed Doct

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This is a wonderful, original document dated 1769, where Hunking Wentworth has signed a warrant against Thomas Richardson of Pelham, New Hampshire ...signed on front by Hunking Wentworthas Justice of the Peace. Document is 6x8, folds, minor toning, in overall good condition.
HUNKING WENTWORTH [1697-1782] son of N.H. Lieut. Gov. John Wentworth. Hunking was the uncle of Governor John Wentworth who remained a Loyalist during the Revolution. Hunking joined the Revolutionary cause, was elected chairman of the Committee of safety, and even went so far as to declare his nephew “an enemy to the community” because he had procured carpenters
and sent them to assist General Gage at Boston to construct barracks for British troops.
In his 78th year of age Hunking Wentworth, as chairman of the Committee of Safety, secured the signatures of the 497 inhabitants of Portsmouth who were willing to sign the Association Test of 1776. Hunking Wentworth lived to see all the events that led to the conclusion of the war with Great Britain, but died in 1782, the year before the Articles of Peace were published.