[Miscellaneous short papers on Massachusetts political history]. 1984-1985.

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[Miscellaneous short papers on Massachusetts political history]. 1984-1985.

Writings on the Massachusetts Charter, the Massachusetts General Court in the Colonial period, the Old State House and Massachusetts political figures.

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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...

Savage, Neil J., 1929-

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