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  • A manual for the use of the General Court.

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    • Boston.
    • 1856-present
    • 100 Items

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    Text *SAM (Mass. General Court. Manual for the use of the General Court) (1987-1988)Offsite
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    Text *SAM (Mass. General Court. Manual for the use of the General Court) (1991-1992)Offsite
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    Text *SAM (Mass. General Court. Manual for the use of the General Court) (1999-2000)Offsite
  • Leading the way : a history of the Massachusetts General Court, 1629-1980 / by Cornelius Dalton, John Wirkkala, Anne Thomas ; edited by Cornelius Dalton ; illustrations by James J. Dobbins.

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    • Boston, MA : Office of the Massachusetts Secretary of State : Distributed through the State Bookstore, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLF 86-1729Offsite
  • The membership of the Massachusetts Bay General Court, 1630-1686 / Robert E. Wall.

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    • New York : Garland, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text IQG 91-4417Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Legislative procedure in the General Court of Massachusetts.

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    • Boston : Causeway Print, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLE 88-982|m(SASB)Offsite
  • A defence of the legislature of Massachusetts, or The rights of Newengland vindicated.

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    • Boston, Printed at the Repertory office, 1804.
    • 1804
    • 1 Item
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    Text IQG (Defense of the legislature of Massachusetts. Boston, 1804)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Ye great and general courte in collonie times. By Obadiah Oldpath. (James R. Newhall.) Pub. by Israel Augustus Newhall and Howard Mudge Newhall.

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    • Lynn, Mass., The Nichols press--T. P. Nichols, 1897.
    • 1897
    • 1 Item
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    Text IQG (Newhall, J. R. Great and general courte)Offsite
  • Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780 : a biographical dictionary / John A. Schutz.

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    • Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 2 Items
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    Text IQG 97-9299Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Concluding remarks of Francis W. Emmons, of Sturbridge, on regulating the sale of alcohol, and prohibiting intoxicating drink. Delivered in the Massachusetts Legislature, April 18, 1848.

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    • Boston, J. Putnam, 1848.
    • 1848
  • Opinion of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court upon the question of money bills : referred to them by orders of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth-- 1878.

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    • Boston : Press of Rand, Avery, Printers, 1879.
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
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    Text TF (Massachusetts. Courts.-Supreme Judicial Court. Opinion of the justices)Offsite
  • Memoir of the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Ph. D., LL. D. / by Hamilton Andrews Hill.

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    • Boston [Mass.] : Press of David Clapp & Son, 1888.
    • 1888-1888
    • 1 Item
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    Text AN p.v. 86 no. 1-36Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Oration on the sublime virtues of General George Washington, pronounced at the Old South Meeting-House in Boston, before ... the Legislature of Massachusetts ... on Saturday, the 8th of February, 1800. By Fisher Ames.

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    • Philadelphia, Printed by John Ormrod, 1800.
    • 1800
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KGW 1800 (Ames, F. Oration on the sublime virtues of General George Washington. Philadelphia)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The personal liberty laws : Remarks of Edward L. Pierce, before the committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the general statutes relating to personal liberty, at their hearing of Feb. 1, 1861.

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    • Boston : Printed by Stacy & Richardson, 1861.
    • 1861
  • New England judged, not by man's, but the spirit of the Lord: and the summe sealed up of New-England's persecutions. Being a brief relation of the sufferings of the people called Quakers in those parts of America, from the beginning of the fifth moneth 1656. (the time of their first arrival at Boston from England) to the later end of the tenth moneth, 1660 ... In answer to a certain printed paper, intituled, A declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston, the 18. October, 1658 [sic]. Apologizing for the same. By George Bishope ...

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    • London, Printed for R. Wilson, 1661.
    • 1661
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1661 (Bishop, G. New England judged)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • An examination of the grounds or causes, which are said to induce the court of Boston in New-England to make that order or law of banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers; as also of the grounds and considerations by them produced to manifest the warrantableness and justness both of their making and executing the same, which they now stand deeply engaged to defend, having already thereupon put two of them to death. As also of some further grounds for justifying of the same, in an Appendix to John Norton's book (which was printed after the book it self, yet as part thereof) whereto he is said to be appointed by the General Court. And likewise of the arguments briefly hinted in that which is called, A true relation of the proceedings against the Quakers, &c. Whereunto somewhat is added about the authority and government which Christ excluded out of his church, which occasioneth somewhat concerning the true church-government. By Isaac Penington, the younger ...

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    • London, Printed for L. Lloyd, 1660.
    • 1660
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1660 (Penington, I. Examination of the grounds or causes)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A declaration of the sad and great persecution and martyrdom of the people of God, called Quakers, in New-England, for the workshipping of God ... Also, some considerations, presented to the King, which is in answer to a petition and address, which was presented unto him by the General court at Boston: subscribed by J. Endicot, the chief persecutor there; thinking thereby to cover themselves from the blood of the innocent ...

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    • London, Printed for Robert Wilson, in Martins le grand [1660]
    • 1660
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1660 (Burrough, E. Declaration of the sad and great persecution and martyrdom)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A letter from William Shirley, esq; governor of Massachuset's Bay, to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle: with a journal of the siege of Louisbourg, and other operations of the forces, during the expedition against the French settlements on Cape Breton; drawn up at the desire of the Council and House of Representatives of the province of Massachuset's Bay; approved and attested by Sir William Pepperrell, and the other principal officers who commanded in the said expedition. Published by authority.

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    • London, Printed by E. Owen, 1748.
    • 1748
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KC 1748 (Massachusetts (colony). Governor, 1741-1757 (William Shirley) Letter from William Shirley, esq)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A description of the situation, climate, soil, and productions of certain tracts of land in the district of Maine, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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    • [Boston, 1793.]
    • 1793
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KD 1793 (Bingham, W. Description of the situation, climate, soil, and productions of certain tracts of land in the district of Maine, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Remarks on the report of the legislature on our foreign relations [microform] By Sully ...

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    • Boston, 1810.
    • 1810
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZH IAG p.v. 285-291Offsite
  • A sermon, delivered before His Excellency the Governor, and the Honourable Legislature, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the annual election, May 31, 1797. By John Mellon, jun. one of the ministers of Barnstable.

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    • Boston, Printed by Young & Minns, printers to the state, 1797.
    • 1797
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KD 1797 (Mellen, J. Sermon, delivered before His Excellency) Copy 1 8-*KD 1797 (Mellen, J. Sermon, delivered before His Excellency) Copy 2Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A sermon, preached before His Excellency Increase Sumner, esq., governor; His Honor Moses Gill, esq. lieutenant-governor; the Honorable the Council, Senate, and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 30, 1798. Being the day of general election. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M., pastor of the church in Franklin.

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    • Boston, Printed for the state, 1798.
    • 1798
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KD 1798 (Emmons, N. Sermon, preached before His Excellency Increase Sumner)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A sermon preached June 12, 1799, before His Honor Moses Gill, esquire, lieutenant governor and commander in chief: the Honorable the Council, Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the interment of His Excellency Increase Sumner, esq., who died June 7, 1799, æt. 53. By Peter Thacher, D.D.

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    • Boston, Printed by Young & Minns [1799]
    • 1799
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KD 1799 (Thacher, P. Sermon preached June 12, 1799)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony and the General Court. The observance of the tercentenary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and of the General Court and one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts . [microform]

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    • Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1930.
    • 1930-
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZH IAG p.v. 413-421Offsite
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  • An account of the alteration and present state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania. Containing, also, an account of the gaol and penitentiary house of Philadelphia-and the interior management thereof. By Caleb Lownes. Printed by order of the legislature of Massachusetts.

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    • Boston, by Young & Minns, 1799.
    • 1799
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KD 1799 (Lownes, C. Account of the alteration and present state of the penal laws of Pennsylvania)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • List of committees of the General Court of Massachusetts.

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    • Boston : The General Court
    • 1862-present
    • 2 Items
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    Text *SAM (Massachusetts) (Massachusetts. General Court. List of committees) 1882,1919Offsite
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    Text *SAM (Massachusetts) (Massachusetts. General Court. List of committees) 1917Offsite
  • Poole's statistical view of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts ...

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    • Boston : Dutton & Wentworth, 1849-1853.
    • 1849-1853
    • 1 Item
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    Text *SAM (Massachusetts) (Annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts) 1849-1864Offsite
  • Poole's annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts ...

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    • Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, 1854-
    • 1854-18
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    Text *SAM (Massachusetts) (Annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts) 1849-1864Offsite
  • Annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts.

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    • Boston : Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son
    • 185-
    • 1 Item
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    Text *SAM (Massachusetts) (Annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts) 1849-1864Offsite
  • The General Court of Massachusetts, 1630-1930 : Tercentenary exercises to commemorate its establishment three hundred years ago, and to note the progress of the Commonwealth under nine generations of lawmakers...October twenty, nineteen thirty, eleven o'clock.

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    • Boston : Wright & Potter, [1930?]
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
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    Text *SBK (Massachusetts. General Court. General Court of Massachusetts) v. 1630-1930Offsite
  • The General Court of Massachusetts, 1630-1930 : tercentenary exercises.

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    • Boston : Wright & Potter, c1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text *SBK (Massachusetts. General Court. General Court of Massachusetts) v. 1630-1930Offsite
  • A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators.

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    • Brockton : A.M. Bridgman
    • 1892-
    • 4 Items

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    Text AB (Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators) v. 11 (1902)Offsite
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    Text AB (Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators) v. 14 (1905)Offsite
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    Text AB (Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators) v. 16 (1907)Offsite
  • Opinion of the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court upon the question of money bills [microform] : referred to them by orders of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusets at the General Court of 1878.

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    • Boston : Press of Rand, Avery, Printers, 1879.
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZF-945Offsite
  • The ballad of the abolition blunder-buss [electronic resource].

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    • Boston : For sale by the booksellers, 1861.
    • 1861
  • Address of the Whig members of the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts to their constituents [electronic resource] / occasioned by the inaugural address of His Excellency Marcus Morton.

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    • Boston : Press of T.R. Marvin, 1843.
    • 1843
  • Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [electronic resource].

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    • Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the State
    • 18-
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  • Review of the proceedings in the Massachusetts Legislature for 1843 [electronic resource] : with an appeal to the people against the violent course of the majority / by the Whig minority.

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    • Boston : J.H. Eastburn, printer, 1843.
    • 1843
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  • A tabular view of representation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1780 to 1853 [electronic resource] / prepared by Ephraim M. Wright.

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    • Boston : W. White, printer to the State, 1854.
    • 1854
    • 1 Item
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  • Poole's annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts [electronic resource].

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    • Boston : Printed by Dutton and Wentworth
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  • Annual register of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts [electronic resource].

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    • Boston : Printed by A. Mudge & Son.
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  • Rules and orders of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [electronic resource] : together with the Constitution of the Commonwealth and that of the United States and a list of the executive and legislative departments of the state government.

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    • Boston : W. White, printer to the State
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  • Statistical view of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts [electronic resource].

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    • Boston : Printed by Stacy, Richardson, Filmer & Co.
    • 18-
    • 1 Resource

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  • Poole's statistical view of the executive and legislative departments of the government of Massachusetts [electronic resource].

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    • Boston : Printed by Dutton & Wentworth
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  • A narrative of the rise, progress & issue of the late law-suits [electronic resource] : relative to property held and devoted to pious uses in the First Precinct in Rehoboth : containing the substance of the records which shew for whose use and benefit the property was originally intended : together with some observations on certain constitutional principles, which respect the support of public worship, and the equal protection and establishment of all regular denominations of Christians / by James Ellis.

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    • Warren (Rhode-Island) : Printed by Nathaniel Phillips, 1795.
    • 1795
    • 1 Resource

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  • Trust in God, the duty of a people in a day of trouble [electronic resource] : a sermon preached May 30th, 1770, at the request of a great number of gentlemen, friends to the liberties of North-America, who were desirous, notwithstanding the removal of the Massachusetts General-Court (unconstitutionally as they judged) to Cambridge, that God might be acknowledged in that house of worship at Boston, in which our tribes, from the days of our fathers, have annually sought to him for direction, previous to the choice of his Majesty's Council / by Charles Chauncy.

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    • Boston : Printed by Daniel Kneeland for Thomas Leverett, 1770.
    • 1770
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  • An examination of the grounds or causes which are said to induce the court of Boston in New-England to make that order or law of banishment upon pain of death against the Quakers ... [electronic resource] : as also of some further grounds for justifying of the same, in an Appendix to John Norton's book ... : and likewise of the arguments briefly hinted in that which is called, A true relation of the proceedings against the Quakers ... : which Christ excluded out of his church ... / by Isaac Penington, the Younger.

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    • London : Printed for L. Lloyd, 1660.
    • 1660
    • 1 Resource

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  • Executive and legislative departments of the State of Massachusetts, 1868 [electronic resource] / photographed by A.B. Eaton.

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    • Lowell [Mass.] : Stone & Huse, 1868.
    • 1868
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  • The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved [electronic resource] : By James Otis, Esq;.

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    • [London] : Boston, New-England, printed: London reprinted, for J. Almon, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, [1764]
    • 1764
    • 1 Resource

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  • The proceedings of the Council, and the House of Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, [electronic resource] : relative to the convening, holding and keeping the General Assembly at Harvard-College in Cambridge: and the several messages which passed between His Honor the lieutenant governor and the two Houses, upon that subject. Published by order of the House of Representatives.

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    • Boston : Printed by Edes and Gill, printers to the Honorable House of Representatives, 1770.
    • 1770
    • 1 Resource

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  • The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved [electronic resource] : By James Otis, Esq;.

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    • [London] : Boston, New-England, printed: London reprinted, for J. Williams, next the Mitre-Tavern, Fleet-Street; and J. Almon, in Piccadilly, 1766.
    • 1766
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  • Proclamation. State of Massachusetts-Bay. In Council, July 30, 1777 : whereas the General Assembly of this state stands adjourned to Wednesday the third day of September next; but the situation of affairs within this state, require the convening of the General Assembly before that time ...

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    • [Boston] : [Printed by John Gill], [1777]
    • 1777
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KVB (1777 July 30) (Massachusetts council. Proclamation)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. : In pursuance of an act of Parliament made and passed in the 7th and 8th years of the reign of King William the Third, intitled, An act for preventing fraud and regulating abuses in the plantation trade.

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    • [Boston, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1757]
    • 1757
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KVB (1757 June 21) (Massachusetts. In pursuance of an act of Parliament)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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