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Order of Confinement for Job Shattuck

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Commonwealth of [tear in paper]
To Joseph [tear in paper] Sheriff of the County
of Suffolk

Whereas Job Shattuck, Oliver Parker & Benja
Page all of Groton in the County of Middlesex
have been taken up and comitted by a Special
Warrant to the Goal in this County as Persons
Whom the Safety of the Commonwealth Required should
be Restrained of their Personal Liberty and whose
Enlargement has been deemed dangerous thereto, you
are ^with Advice of Council not to offer any Person to Speak to them
or to have any Communications with them and
not to permit them the use of Pen & Ink or
Paper without the special leave of the
Governour
Given under the great Seal of this Commonwealth this

By His Excellency's Command
with the Advice & consent of Council