Massachusetts Senate Resolution, 1976.

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Massachusetts Senate Resolution, 1976.

A copy of the Massachusetts State Senate resolution proclaiming and confirming Hoar's innocence of any wrongdoing or misdeeds while president of Harvard College.

1 broadside (1 folio box).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7139212

Harvard University Archives.

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Massachusetts. General Court. Senate

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The upper house of the General Court consisted in the colonial period (1629-1686) of assistants sitting with the governor and deputy governor and originally called the Court of Assistants--though in 1634 the court's legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole and by 1644 that term was reserved for the assistants serving solely in their judicial capacity only; during the intercharter period under a revival of colonial government (1689-1692) and in the provincial and...

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Hoar, Leonard, 1630?-1675

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