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Notes
[1]
For much aid in the examination of these papers, I am indebted to Mr. Leo Flaherty, Senior Archives Assistant, Massachusetts Archives, and to the staff of the State Library of Massachusetts.
[3]
State Library of Massachusetts, Journals of the House of Representatives, hereinafter cited as JHR, May 31, 1753.
[11]
JHR, June 6, 1786; Massachusetts Archives, Legislative Records of the Council, hereinafter cited as CR, June 20, 1786.
[13]
The Journals of Each Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and 1775, and of the Committee of Safety (Boston 1838), hereinafter cited as PC, pp. 150, 58.
[15]
Worthington C. Ford, Broadsides, Ballads &c. Printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800 (1922), p. 243. Arc., CXLIII, 22, 24.
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