NAHUM WARD [To accompany Bill H.R.C.C. No. 27]

Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1860. Removed Document. 36th Congress, 1st Session. House Report No. 172; 12 pages; Removed Document; clean and complete. Report from Mr. Leach regarding claims of Nahum Ward (unsuccessfully filed repeatedly over the course of 50 years) demanding the amount of 43 loan office certificates, of 400 USdollars each, dated December 23, 1777 plus interest. The arguments presented in the Court of Claims in Nahum Ward vs The United States. An ancient claim against the United States, founded on loan certificates issued by the Continental Congress in 1777 and sent to the loan office in Georgia to be given in exchange for money when countersigned by the loan officer of that state, rejected, there being no sufficient evidence that the certificates were countersigned and issued as required by the legislation which authorized them, the same claim having been rejected in 1792 by Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, and there being no sufficient evidence now that the facts then assumed by him as the basis of his conclusions were unfounded, the claim being, moreover, considered by this Court as without equity. Nahum Ward (1684-1754) was one of the founders of Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1717. Colonel Ward, as he was called, became a moderately prosperous farmer and a central personage in Shrewsbury local government for many years. He was the town's first selectman, its moderator, and its representative to the General Court. He later served as a justice of the peace for Worcester County and, for the last nine years of his life, as a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. .