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Excerpt from A History of the Constitution of MassachusettsThe Province of the Massachusetts Bay (province Char ter), 1692 - 1774, Colony and State of Massachusetts Bay (provincial Con grees and Province Charter resumed), 1774-1780, The Movement for a State Constitution, 17 7 6 - 1780, 1. Preliminaries, 2. Constitution of 1778, and the Mex Result, 3. Constitutional Convention of 1779 - 1780, 4. The Ratification, Constitutional Development in t...

Excerpt from A History of the Constitution of MassachusettsThe Province of the Massachusetts Bay (province Char ter), 1692 - 1774, Colony and State of Massachusetts Bay (provincial Con grees and Province Charter resumed), 1774-1780, The Movement for a State Constitution, 17 7 6 - 1780, 1. Preliminaries, 2. Constitution of 1778, and the Mex Result, 3. Constitutional Convention of 1779 - 1780, 4. The Ratification, Constitutional Development in t...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Historical Markers Erected by Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary CommissionThe illustrations are from photographs made expressly for this hook hy the Vice Chairman 0 Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission.m.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses sta...

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Vol. 1: Federalist, 1765-1848IN the following pages I have attempted to describe the life of a man of vigorous and fascinating personality, who was born in Boston ten years before the Revolution com menced, who entered national politics during Washing ton's second administration, who was a leader in the ih teresting movement that culminated in the Hartford Convention of 1814, and who liv...

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis Federalist 1765-1848, Vol. 2 of 2Yet Jefferson's blind faith in his miserable experiment was unshaken. He refused to consider the substitution for it of any policy but war. In his annual message of November 8, 1808, he characteristically avoided mention ing the embargo, in order to throw on Congress the entire responsibility for it. He sought to divert public senti ment by recommending an...

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Excerpt from The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783 1860 Here is no catalogue of ships, reader, nor naval chronicle, but a story of maritime enterprise, of the shipping, sea borne commerce, whaling, and fishing belonging to one American commonwealth. I have chosen to catch the story athalfflood, when Massachusetts vessels first sought Far Eastern waters. And to stay with it only so long as wind and sail would serve. For to one who has sa...

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