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    Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ , /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -⁠zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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    perspective of Massachusetts law, politics, and geography, cities and towns are the same type of municipal unit, differing only in their form of government...
    120 KB (1,071 words) - 04:57, 19 July 2024
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    Period of American History: The Settlements II (1936). Blue, Jon C. The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639–1663. Middletown...
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    adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 24 [O.S. January 14] 1639. The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut...
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    were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1639 OS (January 24, 1639 NS). The fundamental orders describe the government set up by...
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  • Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and...
    13 KB (4,432 words) - 06:37, 16 July 2024
  • Freeman (Thirteen Colonies) (category History of labor relations in the United States)
    LLD, The Founding of New England (1927) James Hammond Trumbull, The True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the...
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    Mother Brook (category 1639 establishments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    by crossing over water, making Mother Brook "Massachusetts' Panama Canal." Dug by English settlers in 1639 to power a grist mill, it is the oldest such...
    132 KB (11,066 words) - 05:03, 28 July 2024
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    HAY-vril) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Haverhill is located 35 miles (56 km) north of Boston on the New Hampshire border and...
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    Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The community is a popular summer resort beach town situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of Boston on the...
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    press. In 1639, it was named Harvard College after John Harvard, an English clergyman who had died soon after immigrating to Massachusetts, bequeathing...
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    Theophilus Eaton (category English emigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony)
    (1838). The Blue laws of New Haven colony: usually called Blue laws of Connecticut; Quaker laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts; Blue laws of New York, Maryland...
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    Massachusetts. In 1639 a third group from England was granted the remaining land between Newbury and Ipswich and incorporated Rowley, Massachusetts....
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    Marsh was originally divided and allotted to twenty-one of Boston's most prominent citizens. By 1639, the original allotments had been consolidated into seven...
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    Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven, June 4, 1639". The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Yale Law School. December 18...
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    Meeting Day in Massachusetts. Dorchester is the birthplace of the first public elementary school in America, the Mather School, established in 1639. The school...
    120 KB (10,716 words) - 16:28, 8 July 2024
  • moved to Medfield, Massachusetts by 1664. In 1639, he joined the First Church and Parish in Dedham. He married Mary Aldis, the daughter of Nathan Aldis, in...
    14 KB (1,555 words) - 10:49, 26 April 2023
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    eastern Massachusetts before emptying into Boston Harbor. Thirty-three lakes and ponds and 35 municipalities are entirely or partially part of the Charles...
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    with Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691 Province of Maine, patent issued in 1622 by Council for New England; patent reissued by Charles I in 1639; absorbed...
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    populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its...
    192 KB (17,528 words) - 05:49, 22 July 2024
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