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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 2 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The loyalists of Medford. (search)
sons therein named was passed in 1778 and included the names of Isaac Royall and his son-in-law, Sir William Pepperell. Any one named in this Act having the temerity to return might be arrested and put into jail, transported to some province of Great Britain at his own expense if possible, otherwise at the expense of the state. If he persisted in returning after such banishment, death without benefit of clergy would be the punishment of his crime. Two Acts to confiscate were passed April 30, 1779; one entitled An Act to confiscate the estates of certain persons commonly called absentees; the other, An Act to confiscate the estates of certain notorious conspirators against the government. All debts due before April 19, 1775, were to be paid; the wife or widow was to have the use of one-third of the personal estate and her dower in the real estate set off. An Act passed in 1781 empowered commissioners for the different counties to make sale of the estates of absentees named in