The Financial History of Massachusetts: From the Organization of the Massachusetts Bay Company to the American Revolution |
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Page 13 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 139 - MOURNFUL LAMENTATION For the sad and deplorable death of Mr. Old Tenor...
Page 56 - There is a general buzzing among the people, great with expectation of their old charter or they know not what : " such was the ominous message of Andros to Brockholst, with orders that the soldiers should be ready for action.
Page 141 - A Word of Comfort to a Melancholy Country, or the Bank of Credit Erected in the Massachusetts Bay, Fairly Defended...
Page 139 - Saints travelling thitherward, pp. 86. Boston. Reprinted. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. In a Series of familiar Letters from a beautiful young Damsel to her Parents. 5th edition. Boston. Paper Currency in New England. A Letter from a Gentleman in Boston to his Friend in Connecticut.
Page 23 - That the charge of all just wars, whether offensive or defensive, upon what part or Member of this Confederation soever they fall, shall, both in men...
Page 129 - ... silver and gold at distant periods, much like the scheme in 1733, and attended with no better effect. The governor exerted himself to blast this fraudulent undertaking, the land bank.
Page 23 - ... being inhabitants there. And that according to the different numbers which from time to time shall be found in each jurisdiction, upon a true and just account, the service of men and all charges of the...
Page 52 - ... according to a computation made at the time, not all the personal property in the colony would have been sufficient to pay it had the charges for all the new patents been made at one time. The accession of William and Mary to the throne of England was the signal for the seizure and imprisonment of Andros and his lieutenants and the...