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Page 5 - The institutions of Massachusetts or Maryland, such at least among them as have been handed down from the foundation of those colonies, are not simply the institutions of Massachusetts and Maryland. They are part of the general institutions of the English people, as those are again part of the general institutions of the Teutonic race, and those are again part of the general institutions of the whole Aryan family.
Page 46 - Forasmuch as it hath bene found by sad experience that much trouble and disturbance hath happened both to the church and civil!
Page 22 - In 1664 a memorial was addressed to the General Court signed by nearly all " the inhahitauts and householders of the towne " to which the names of a number of others were appended "being of the traine band and singell men in the above sayd town." The space included within the original paling was divided among forty-two persons, and it was further agreed " that if any man shall desire to sell his part of impaled ground, he shall first tender the sale thereof to the town inhabitants interested, who...
Page 8 - In consideration of the great trouble and chearg of the inhabitants of Charlestowne by reason of the frequent meeting of the townsmen in generall and y' by reason of many men meeting things were not so easely brought unto a joynt issue.
Page 63 - July, where we found the Colony in a sad and unexpected condition, above eighty of them being dead the winter before, and many of those alive weak and sick ; all the corn and bread amongst them all hardly sufficient to feed them a fortnight...
Page 9 - Teacher desired in any case of conscience.) shall entreat of all such business as shall conscerne the Townsmen, the choice of officers excepted, and what they or the greater part of them shall conclude of the rest of the towne willingly to submit unto as their owne propper act, and these 1 1 to continue in this employment for one yeare next ensuing, the date hereof...
Page 35 - Every man whether Inhabitant or fforreiner, free or not free shall have libertie to come to any publique Court, Councel, or Towne meeting, and either by speech or writeing to move any lawfull, seasonable, and materiall question, or to present any necessary motion, complaint, petition, Bill or information, whereof that meeting hath proper cognizance, so it be done in convenient time, due order, and respective manner.
Page 27 - Company all such servants or factors, of or for the said Company, and all such others as to them or the most part of them present, at any court held for the said Company, the Governor or his Deputy being one...
Page 23 - It was ordered by the Court of Assistants on the 7th of September, 1630, " that Trimountaine shalbe called Boston " ; but the Boston town records do not begin until four years later, the first entry in them being of Sept. 1, 1634. Owing...
Page 46 - Court doth not, nor will hereafter, approve of any such companies of men as shall henceforth join in any pretended way of church fellowship, without they shall first acquaint the magistrates and the elders of the greater part of the churches in this jurisdiction with their intentions, and have their approbation therein.
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| Title | The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town: And the Development of Town-meeting Government Volume 7 of Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Authors | Charles Francis Adams, Abner Cheney Goodell, Mellen Chamberlain, Edward Channing |
| Contributor | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Publisher | J. Wilson and Son, 1892 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Aug 21, 2006 |
| Length | 94 pages |
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