Massachusetts Bay Colony/Commonwealth of Massachusetts printed records and documents collection, 1714-1865.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony/Commonwealth of Massachusetts printed records and documents collection, 1714-1865.

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The series Printed volumes includes bound v. or disbound portions of bound v. of acts, laws, resolves, and charter, dating from 1714 to 1786. The series Broadsides includes A proclamation ... [concerning] An act for preventing the exportation of provisions and warlike stores out of this province ... (1756), three printed Massachusetts form tax warrants filled out for Lancaster (1779 Jan., Apr., and Sept.), and B. Tolman's copy of a 36 p. printed Massachusetts form entitled Statistics of certain branches of industry, as they existed in the Town of Concord [Concord in ms.] ... (1865).

2.75 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 7342679

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Massachusetts.

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Little is known of the Monson Artillery Company beyond the information given in the collection. From the guide to the Massachusetts Militia, 5th Regiment, Monson Artillery Company Orderly Book, 1815-1842, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Massachusetts. General Court

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The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony. It consisted of colony freemen (company stockholders); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants (magistrates) chosen by them. The latter group met separately as a Court of Assistants, but in 1634 its legislative powers were ceded to the General Court as a whole (Ma...

Tolman, Benjamin, 1822-1906

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Lancaster (Mass.). Collector of Taxes.

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Massachusetts. Treasury Office

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Throughout the provincial period, Massachusetts towns were periodically assessed by the Treasury with taxes for the defraying of public charges and support of the government. This practice increased in importance and frequency during the Revolutionary War, as individual colonies became largely responsible for financial support of the war effort. Resolves 1777-78, c 398 (Oct. 9, 1777), dictated that all Massachusetts financial support of the war was thenceforth to be based on taxation only, with ...