Estate / Collection: The Victor Gulotta Collection

ENDECOTT, JOHN (sometimes ENDICOTT)

Document signed as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [Vicinity of Salem: circa 1654 from docketing on verso]. A manuscript deposition on a slip of paper written in English and Latin in a secretarial hand, signed by Endecott as "Jo: Endecott Gub[ernato]r", the document being the deposition of Daniel Kimbell in the case of a corn theft, possibly conducted by a sometime employee named Samuel Cutler. 3 x 5 ¾ inches (7 x 14 cm); framed with a portrait. A few small stains, but very well-preserved and dark overall.

John Endecott (before 1660-1664), one of seven signatories to a land grant given to "The New England Company for a Plantation in Massachusetts,” landed at Salem in 1628. He was the longest-serving Governor of the colony, serving one term before the arrival of John Winthrop with the colonial charter, and many thereafter, for a total of sixteen years between 1629 and 1664. The present document offers a large example of Endecott’s signature, which is uncommon at auction.

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