Files on the Massachusetts-New York boundary, 1784-1787.
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Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789
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Epithet: of Add MS 12496 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001127.0x000086 William Nelson Fenton is an anthropologist and ethnologist specializing in Iroquoian studies. From the guide to the George Chalmers papers relating to Indian affairs, 1750-1775, 1750-1775, (American Philosophical Society) Military engineer; colonial military officer in British service until 1780; appointed geographer o...
Massachusetts. Commissioners to Ascertain the Boundary Line between Massachusetts and New York.
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Massachusetts had unlimited claims on lands west of the Hudson River, based on provisions of the Plymouth Colony (1620) and Massachusetts Bay (1629) charters, while New York had competing claims based on provisions of the 1664 charter from King Charles II to his brother, James, Duke of York. After American independence, Congress urged that boundary lines and land disputes between Massachusetts and New York be settled. The boundary between the colonies of Massachusetts and New York (...
Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State
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St 1832, c 166 authorized county commissioners in Massachusetts to grant liquor licenses to innholders and retailers. St 1852, c 322 (revised by St 1855, c 215) established state-wide prohibition, forbidding the sale of all liquor except for medicinal, chemical, or mechanical purposes. This was changed by St 1868, c 141, passed in April of that year, which authorized county commissioners (in Suffolk County specially-elected license commissioners) to issue licenses for the sale of liquor in their...
