CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MOSES WING. Worcester County (MA) Probate Document. Addressed to Hon. Nathaniel Paine, Judge, Probate Court

Publication Date: 1810

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Single sheet, folded to 30 x 18 cm., [3] pp., docketed on the fourth page. Browned, slight tears at folds and edges, in ink in a legible hand. A tender copy. A list of claims against the estate of Moses Wing (1760-1809), clockmaker and jeweler, 1810. Several dozen persons are named along with the amounts they claim to be owed and the amounts that were allowed by the court. About $1449 was allowed to be paid. Several of Wing's clocks are still in existence. Wing, originally from Windsor, Connecticut, and later Worcester, Massachusetts, was known as a Goldsmith, but made brass clocks, silver spoons, knee and shoe buckles, etc. [see: "Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth Century," by T.R. Hoppes, (Dover Pub.: 1974), p.124]. Seller Inventory # 67630

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Title: CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF MOSES WING. ...

Publication Date: 1810