Manuscript memoranda relating to the members of the Senate of Massachusetts, 1836-1842, [18--].

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...

Fay, Francis B. (Francis Ball), 1793-1876

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