George Richards Minot (1758–1802)
In 1803 Bushrod Washington asked Caleb Parry Wayne to send a copy of Minot's History of the Insurrections.
George Richards Minot, judge, orator, and historian, was born in Boston on 22 December 1758. A Harvard graduate, he served as clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1782–92), secretary of the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (1788), Suffolk County probate judge (1792–1802), and chief justice of the Suffolk County Court of Common Pleas. He is best known for The History of the Insurrections, in Massachusetts, In the Year MDCCLXXXVI, and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon (1788), a study of Shays's rebellion. Minot and his wife Mary Speakman (1754–1811, m.
Robert A. Feer, "George Richards Minot's History of the Insurrections: History, Propaganda, and Autobiography," The New England Quarterly, Volume 35, Number 2 (June 1962), 203–28.
James Jackson Minot, comp., Ancestors and Descendants of George Richards Minot, 1758–1802 (1936).
"To George Washington from George Richards Minot, 7 August 1788," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-06-02-0393. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 6, 1 January 1788 – 23 September 1788, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997, pp. 432–433.]
Judge George Richards (Historian, Judge of General Court, Minot, ME Named after him) Minot in Wilson Family Tree (Ancestry.com).