Petition of the Freeholders of Hull, Mass. [manuscript], 1663 May 27, June 10.

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Petition of the Freeholders of Hull, Mass. [manuscript], 1663 May 27, June 10.

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Petition, 1663, of the Freeholders of Hall, Mass., to the General Court, Boston, Mass., concerns use of land and fishing rights; and includes a resolution, with reasons, rejecting the petition on verso. Signed by Nathaniel Gossworth, Thomas Colier, Richard Russell, Edward Johnson, and Joseph Hills.

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Johnson, Edward, 1599?-1672

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Gossworth, Nathaniel,

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Colier, Thomas,

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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...

Hills, Joseph, 1602-1688

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Russell, Richard.

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