Bond to Clement Maxfield, 30 March 1664

Stoughton's bond for forty pounds to the constable of Dorchester, Massachusetts, guaranteeing the appearance of Daniel Elders at court. Elders was the defendant in a suit brought by Mitchel Bacon of Woburn against Daniel Elders of Dorchester.

With wax seal.

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Stoughton, A.B. Harvard (1650), a colonial magistrate, served as deputy from the Massachusetts Colony to England (1677-1679), lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1692-1701), and acting governor of Massachusetts (1694-1699, 1700-1701). He was chief justice of the Superior Court of Oyer and Terminer, which tried the Salem witchcraft cases of 1692.