TYLER ROYALL Partly printed Document Signed discharge of unn

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WRITER OF FIRST AMERICAN COMEDY TYLER, ROYALL. Partly-printed Document Signed, discharge of unnamed Assistant Assessor [name, division, and assessment district blanks are unaccomplished]. 6¼x7¾ inches; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, vertical folds, remnants of hinging at all edges verso. [Montpelier], 8 February 1799

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'The Board of Commissioners of the State of Vermont, under the Act of the Congress of the United States, passed July 9th, 1798, entitled, 'An Act to provide for the Valuation of Lands,' &c. satisfied with your Services as Assistant Assessor of the above Subdivision, have, by a Vote of the Board, . . . discharged you from any further Service in that Office."
Royall Tyler (1757-1826) was an American jurist who served as Clerk of the Board of Commissioners in VT during the late 1790s and as a Justice on the VT Supreme Court between 1801 and 1812; he is, however, best known today for his career as a playwright, having written in 1787 the first American comedy performed by professional actors: The Contrast (1790).