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Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, Vol. 2: 1630-1692 (Classic Reprint)
Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay Vol 2 16301692 - Classic Reprint Author:John Noble Excerpt from Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, Vol. 2: 1630-1692 — Volume I. of the Records of the Court of Assistants, covering the period from 1673 to 1692, was issued in 1901. — Volume II., now issued, takes in the period from the settlement of the Colony to 5 March, 1643-4. — This volume, though containi... more »ng the records of a period earlier than that in the former volume, has been numbered Volume II. for the reasons given in the preface to the first volume.
Part I. is taken from the first volume of the Records of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in the State Archives, and has been printed, like the earlier volume, with an exact adherence to the originals, and is a reproduction of them in every particular, so far as the difference between print and manuscript will allow.
It has also been compared with a contemporaneous copy of the same (made by Thomas Lechford to 28 January, 1641), referred to below.
Part II. comprises a copy of a portion of the records of the Court of Assistants, extending from 28 October, 1641, to 5 March, 1643-4, recently discovered in the so-called Barlow Manuscript Copy, or duplicate, of the records of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, which was bought for the Boston Public Library in 1890. This was published by order of the City Council of Boston, by William H. Whitmore, Record Commissioner, in his Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony.
In the record of the Court for 5 March, 1643-4, there are at the end three subsequent entries, the latest being 30 May, 1644.
The same exact adherence to the original has been kept as in Part I.
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