Boston May 12. 1772

Sir

I send under M^r. Dickinsons care the Law

Books w^ch I have lately rec^d from London, Note

of w^ch you have annexd.

y^e most Hble Serv^t

Sam^l Eliot

M^r Joseph Barnard bot of

Boston May 12. 1772

Sam^l Eliot

1 Jacobs Law Dictionary

L 1 _"17

1 Burrows Reports 3 Vol^s.

4. 10

1 Every Man his own Lawyer

_"5.6

L6_"12_"6

Adv. ^a 59 pCt.

5.18.2

L10_"10.8

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As an English colony, Americans relied upon English Common Law to help them write their own local laws and to guide their legal arguments. Some American lawyers studied law at the Inns of Court in London. Those that did not travel to England still read English law books such as Burrows Reports or Blackstone's Commentaries. Joseph Barnard of Deerfield, Massachusetts, ordered several English law books through a Boston bookseller in 1772.

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