Note of Recommendation for Daniel Henshaw for a teaching position

8x15.5 cm. Manuscript note, mounted on a larger (19x17 cm.) sheet signed by Zephaniah Swift Moore attesting to the qualifications and character of Daniel Henshaw of Leicester, then a student at Harvard College. Damaged at top left edge with loss of some characters. The text reads "To Whom It May Concern, [I C]ertify that Daniel Henshaw of Leicester and now a [student] of Harvard University, possesses an amiable dispo[sition,] maintains a fair moral character, and is qualified to [?] the care of a school, & to teach Reading, Writing, English [G]rammar, Arithmetic, & whatever is usually taught in the school in general. Leicester, December 24th 1803." Moore, at the time a minister at the First Congregational Church in Leicester, later became the second president of Williams College. He left that position to become the first president of Amherst College upon its founding in 1821. Henshaw practiced law in Winchendon, Mass. from 1809 to 1830 and was from 1830 to 1842 the editor of several publications including the Massachusetts Yeoman, Boston Christian Herald and Lynn Record before resuming his law practice.…