ADS, signed “Edward Rawson,” one page, 7.5 x 8.5, February 7, 1682. General Court document related to Noddle’s Island in Boston Harbor, answering a petition by the owner Samuel Shrimpton, “for the release of the Quitt Rent & the Incumbrances upon Noddles Island…This Court has Consented and does hereby forever release…the said Island from the said duty & payment…and that the same beholden by the said Samuel Shrimpton his heirs & assigns for ever in fee, without any Incumbrance whatsoever, upon no other condition, but the payment of thirty pounds money sterling of England.” In fine condition. Originally purchased from Joseph Rubinfine and accompanied by the original catalog and paperwork. Conditions in the original 1633 grant of Noddle’s Island required an annual payment of livestock and forty shillings to the governor, plus the right of Boston residents to gather wood on the property. Shrimpton, a successful lawyer and civic leader, complied with these conditions during the first twelve years of his ownership before petitioning to be freed from them by this larger payment.
