Commonwealth history of Massachusetts, colony, province and state, volume 2, Part 1

Author: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943, editor
Publication date: 1927
Publisher: New York, States History Co.
Number of Pages: 696


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SETTLEMENTS BY IMMIGRANTS DIRECT FROM ENGLAND OTHER SETTLEMENTS UP TO 1690


SETTLEMENTS 1691 TO 1740


SETTLEMENTS 1741 TO 1765


SETTLEMENTS AFTER 1765


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COMMONWEALTH HISTORY of


MASSACHUSETTS


EDITED BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART


A. B., LITT. D., LL. D., PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF GOVERNMENT, HARVARD UNIVERSITY ; MEMBER OF MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY; HISTORIAN OF THE UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON BICENTENARY COMMISSION ; DESCENDANT OF STEPHEN HART, FREEMAN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY IN 1632


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TABLE OF CONTENTS


CHAPTER I


THE PROVINCE CHARTER (1689-1715)


By Marcus W. Jernegan


1


GROUNDWORK OF THE COMMONWEALTH (1630-1691)


1


BASIS OF A NEW GOVERNMENT (1692)


2


THE INTERREGNUM (1689-1692)


3


AGENCY OF INCREASE MATHER (1688-1689)


4


THE CHARTER DRAFTED (1691)


7


THE CHARTER REDRAFTED (1691)


8


THE CHARTER GRANTED (1691)


9


COMPARISON WITH THE OLD CHARTER (1691)


10


ROYAL CONTROL UNDER THE CHARTER


(1692-1697)


15


SAFEGUARDS OF ENGLISH AUTHORITY (1696-1699)


17


POLITICAL PROGRESS (1698-1702)


18


GOVERNOR JOSEPH DUDLEY (1702-1715)


19


DUDLEY'S DISPUTES WITH THE ASSEMBLY (1702-1708)


21


HARVARD COLLEGE CONTROVERSY (1686-1708)


23


RESULT OF DUDLEY'S ADMINISTRATION (1702-1715)


25


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


27


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CHAPTER II


THE WITCHCRAFT EPISODE (1692-1694)


By E. W. Taylor


29


WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND (TO 1640) .


29


WITCHCRAFT IN ENGLAND (1640-1681)


30


WITCHCRAFT IN THE COLONIES (1636-1660)


32


MASSACHUSETTS WITCHCRAFT (1660-1690)


34


MINISTER PARRIS (1692) .


36


THE ACCUSING GIRLS AND THEIR VICTIMS


(1692)


37


WITCH TRIALS (1692)


38


EXECUTIONS (1692)


40


SPECTRAL EVIDENCE (1692)


40


CHARACTER OF THE TRIALS


(1692)


42


JUDICIAL PROCEDURE (1692) . (1692)


43


ATTITUDE OF ACCUSERS AND ACCUSED


44


CONFIDENCE OF THE ACCUSED (1692)


45


COTTON MATHER'S INFLUENCE (1690-1694)


47


THE FIRE DIES DOWN (1693)


48


THE CASE OF MARGARET RULE (1693)


50


AFTERMATH OF THE WITCHCRAFT EPISODE (1694)


52


REMONSTRANCES (1692)


54


DIVERSITY OF MODERN OPINION ON THE EPISODE


56


EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES


59


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


61


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FRAME OF GOVERNMENT (1691) (1691)


12


ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE CHARTER


(1691) 13


PERSONAL PRIVILEGES (1691-1775)


14


WORKINGS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT


11


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CHAPTER III


EXTERNAL RELATIONS (1689-1740)


By Arthur H. Buffinton


ELEMENTS OF THE CONFLICT (1689-1740) 63


CHARACTER OF THE CONFLICT (1689-1740)


64


FIRST WAR MEASURES (1688-1689) 65


66


OPERATIONS IN NEW YORK (1690)


68


ST. LAWRENCE EXPEDITION (1690)


69


PHIPS AND THE WAR (1692-1693)


72


POLICY OF GOVERNOR STOUGHTON (1694-1697)


73


FRONTIER DEFENCE (1694-1697)


74


HARDSHIPS OF THE FRONTIER (1694-1696)


74


DISASTROUS CLOSE OF THE WAR (1696)


75


FRENCH AND INDIAN RELATIONS BETWEEN 1702) .


76


THE WAR POLICY OF GOVERNOR JOSEPH DUDLEY


(1702-1713) 78


RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORING COLONIES (1702-1706) 80


NEGOTIATIONS WITH VAUDREUIL (1704-1706)


81


THE ACADIAN EXPEDITION OF 1707


82


FIASCO OF 1709


EXPEDITIONS OF 1710-1711 83


85


RENEWED CONFLICT WITH THE INDIANS (1714-1717)


86


GOVERNOR SHUTE'S INDIAN POLICY (1717-1722)


87


DUMMER'S SUCCESS IN THE WAR (1723-1725) 89


RESULTS OF THE WAR (1725-1727)


90


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


92


CHAPTER IV


GEOGRAPHICAL EXPANSION AND TOWN SYSTEM


By John F. Sly


FORMATIVE PERIOD (1630-1684) 96 .


LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN THE ANDROS PERIOD (1688-1689) 97


TOWN GOVERNMENT REVIVED (1689-1692)


98


TOWN GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED BY STATUTE


(1692)


99


CONTROL OF THE TOWNS BY THE PROVINCE


100


PROPRIETARY TOWN MEETINGS


101


CONSTITUENT TOWNS (1685-1695)


102


NEW TOWNS (1692-1715)


102


ORIGIN OF TOWN NAMES


103


NEW TOWNS (1715-1742)


104


COMPARISON WITH ORIGINAL TOWNS


106


LAND-GRANT TOWNS (1740-1765)


108


DISTRICTS


109


NEW TOWNS (1742-1763)


109


CENSUS OF 1765


112


EVOLUTION OF TOWN GOVERNMENT (1624)


113


COLONIAL DESIGNATION OF TOWN OFFICERS


114


TOWN RECORDS .


115


TOWN MEETING BUSINESS


116


A TYPICAL TOWN MEETING


117


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


120


ATTACK ON ACADIA (1690)


68


EFFORTS TO HOLD ACADIA (1691-1696)


70


POLICY TOWARDS THE INDIANS (1693-1694)


THE WARS (1698-


82


THE PEACE OF UTRECHT (1713)


96


107


USUAL METHOD OF SETTLEMENT


63


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CHAPTER V


THE ROYAL GOVERNORS AND THE GENERAL COURT (1717-1773)


By G. Andrews Moriarty


MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRACY (1717-1773) . 122


SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CLASSES (1692-1717)


123


LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION (1717-1773) 125


BRITISH CONTROL (1717-1773)


127


GOVERNORS BURGESS AND SHUTE (1715-1723) 129


CONTROVERSIES WITH SHUTE (1716-1723) 130


BREAKDOWN OF SHUTE (1721-1723) 131


GOVERNOR DUMMER (1723-1728)


133


GOVERNOR BURNET (1728-1729)


135


GOVERNOR BELCHER (1730-1741)


137


FINANCIAL ISSUES (1730-1741)


138


PAPER MONEY CONTROVERSY (1740-1742)


139


EFFECT OF THE FRENCH WARS (1741-1760)


140


GOVERNOR SHIRLEY (1741-1757)


141


QUESTIONS OF REPRESENTATION


(1741-1757)


143


RISE OF AMERICAN SPIRIT (1760-1774) ·


144


THE STAMP ACT CRISIS (1765-1766)


148


END OF THE BERNARD REGIME (1767-1769)


149


LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON (1769-1771) 150


POLITICAL QUESTIONS (1769-1770) 151


GOVERNOR THOMAS HUTCHINSON (1771-1773) 152


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


154


CHAPTER VI


THE BENCH AND BAR IN COLONY AND PROVINCE


(1630-1776)


By F. W. Grinnell · . .


· 156


INTELLECTUAL EQUIPMENT OF


THE COLONIAL LEADERS (1630- 156


CONSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCE OF THE ·


159


THE BODY OF LIBERTIES (1641-1643)


159


LACK OF LEGAL TRAINING (1630-1660)


161


EARLY STAGES OF THE BAR


162


THE BEGINNINGS OF A "BAR" 163


QUESTION OF RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL (1643-1775)


163


THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE ·


165


OTHER COURTS AND PRACTICE (1699-1757)


166


JUDICIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL IN


ENGLAND


167


SIGNIFICANT CONSTITUTIONAL CASES


169


DECLARING STATUTES VOID


(1692-1702)


171


THE EARLY BAR (1722-1775) INFLUENCE OF A TRAINED BAR (1706-1775)


173


CONDITIONS OF LEGAL TRAINING (1722-1775)


173


THE FIRST GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL CASE (1761)


175


SIGNIFICANCE OF WRITS OF ASSISTANCE CASE' (1761-1765)


177


JOSEPH HAWLEY HEAD OF THE BAR (1745-1776)


178


EDMUND TROWBRIDGE


179


JOHN ADAMS


180


THE JUDICIAL ARTICLE OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS (1780)


181


143


GOVERNOR BERNARD (1760-1769)


146


GOVERNOR POWNALL (1757-1760)


. 1691) . ORIGINAL CHARTER (1630) 157


SOURCES OF MASSACHUSETTS LAW (1629-1689)


169


PERSONNEL AND TENURE OF THE FIRST COURT 170


122


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TORY LAWYERS .


182


THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE (1692-1775) 183


INFERIOR PROBATE AND ADMIRALTY COURTS CONTROVERSY OVER TENURE (1772)


186


CONFLICT OVER CHIEF JUSTICE OLIVER (1776)


187


THE INTERVAL WITHOUT COURTS (1775)


188


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER VII


FINANCE AND PAPER MONEY (1692-1775)


192


By Davis Rich Dewey


TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION UNDER ANDROS (1687- 192


1689) . . . · · FIRST ISSUE OF BILLS OF CREDIT


(1690) 193


194


TAXATION UNDER THE NEW CHARTER


(1692)


195


IMPORT, EXCISE, AND TONNAGE DUTIES


197


IRREDEEMABLE ISSUES (1702-1713)


199


VALUATION OF COINS (1642-1713) ·


(1703-1727) 202


203


GOVERNOR BELCHER'S DISTRESS (1730-1741)


204


DEPRECIATION OF PAPER MONEY


205


COMMERCIAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF INFLATION


208


PRIVATE EFFORTS TO FLOAT NOTES (1714-1746)


210


SHIRLEY'S EFFORT FOR REFORM (1741-1748)


212


THE GENERAL POLICY ON PAPER MONEY


214


POLL AND EXCISE DUTIES (1692-1765)


216


REVENUES FROM LOTTERIES (1745-1765)


217


DUTIES ON IMPORTS (1733-1765)


218


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER VIII


BOSTON : THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TOWN


By Sherwin Lawrence Cook


222


THE SITE


222


PUBLIC BUILDINGS


225


MARKET HOUSES


225


HARBOR AND WHARVES


226


RACE ELEMENTS AND INFLUENCE


227


COLOR LINE


228


DISEASE AND MEDICINE


229


EDUCATION


230


JOURNALISM


231


THE TRADES


231


CHURCHES AND MINISTERS


233


AMUSEMENTS .


.


RELATION TO THE COLONY


235


OFFICIAL LIST OF JUDGES (1692-1775)


181


190


PAPER MONEY SCHEMES (1690) .


197


ADDITIONAL ISSUES OF PAPER MONEY (1694-1701)


198


LOAN BILLS AND LOAN BANKS (1705-1729)


201


CONFLICT WITH GOVERNORS OVER FINANCE


NEW TENOR BILLS (1730-1741) (1704-1750) (1704-1750) 207


EFFECT OF THE BANK PROJECT (1740-1755)


211


RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS (1745-1750)


214


PROPERTY TAXATION (1692-1769)


220


223


THE SUBURBS


227


SCALE OF LIVING


234


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ELECTIONS AND REPRESENTATIVES


236


BOSTON POLITICS


238


BOSTON TOWN MEETING


239


NOTABLE TOWN MEETINGS


240


TOWN MEETING RECORDS


242


TOWN OFFICERS


243


POLICE AND MILITIA


245


SCHOOL GOVERNMENT


246


TOWN COURTS


247


FIRE PROTECTION


248


DEFIANCE OF THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT


249


BOSTON IN THE CRISIS OF 1766-1769


250


BOSTON MASSACRE ORATIONS (1770-1771) 251


SAM ADAMS IN BOSTON TOWN MEETING 251


BOSTON TOWN DURING THE REVOLUTION (1775-1776) 253


BOSTON'S ENLARGEMENT OF IDEAS (1776-1791)


254


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


256


CHAPTER IX


SOCIAL LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRY (1689-1763)


By Allyn Bailey Forbes


257


RACE ELEMENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS


257


SCOTCH IRISH ELEMENT


258


GERMAN AND ACADIAN ELEMENTS


259


INDENTURED SERVANTS


260


NEGRO SLAVES ·


261


ANTI-SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS


264


TREATMENT OF INDIANS 264


TREATMENT OF THE POOR AND SHIFTLESS


265


PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CHARITY 268


269


OTHER PROTESTANT CHURCHES


270


FESTIVITIES


272


A JOLLY QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY


276


ROISTERING .


277


SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS


283


CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN NEW ENGLAND


284


CHALLENGE OF THE OLDER GENERATION


286


CONCLUSION .


287


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER X


MASSACHUSETTS LITERATURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY


By Frederic J. Stimson


291


THE LITERARY SPIRIT


292


DIARIES


COTTON MATHER THE DIARIST


296


SAMUEL SEWALL THE DIARIST


298


SAMUEL SEWALL THE POET 300


303


NATHANIEL AMES, DIARIST


306


JONATHAN EDWARDS, THEOLOGIAN


THE GREAT AWAKENING (1740-1742)


307


ANTI-CATHOLICISM


271


OBSERVANCE OF ROYAL OCCASIONS


274


EXECUTIONS AND FUNERALS


279


STAGE-PLAYS, SHOWS


289


291


293


COTTON MATHER THE AUTHOR


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BELLES LETTRES


310


GENERAL LITERATURE


311


NEWSPAPERS


311


POST-REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE


314


CORRESPONDENCE


315


TRAVEL


316


LIGHT LITERATURE


319


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER XI


COTTON MATHER, PARSON, SCHOLAR AND MAN OF AFFAIRS


323


By Kenneth B. Murdock


323


THE FAME OF COTTON MATHER


324


EDUCATION (1675-1684) 325


327


ENTRY INTO POLITICS (1685-1689)


328


THE WITCHCRAFT EPISODE (1690-1705)


329


WEAKNESS OF MATHER'S POLICY (1695-1715)


331


HARVARD AND YALE


(1700-1728) 334


336


COTTON MATHER, THE MINISTER


337


TOLERANCE


339


LIBERALITY


340


MATHER THE WRITER


MATHER THE SCHOLAR 342


345


THE SCIENTIFIC STUDENT


MEDICINE 345


THE MAN OF HIS TIME 347


MATHER'S PLACE IN MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY


350


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER XII


EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WOMEN (1689-1750)


By Amy Hewes


PERIOD BETWEEN SETTLEMENT AND REVOLUTION 355


THE HOUSEHOLD


356


DRESS


AMUSEMENTS OF WOMEN


360


COURTSHIP


363


MARRIAGE


364


DIVORCE .


WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY 366


367


CARE OF DEPENDENT WOMEN.


368


DOMESTIC OCCUPATIONS .


369


WOMEN IN TRADE AND INDUSTRY


371


EDUCATION OF WOMEN 374


WOMEN OF LEARNING 376


379


MADAM SARAH KNIGHT


384


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


308


STATESMEN AUTHORS


314


THE AMES CORRESPONDENCE


317


ANCESTRY AND EARLY LIFE (1663-1675)


THE POLITICIAN (1689-1694)


333


PRIVATE LIFE AND LAST YEARS


351


355


358


361


WOMEN IN THE HOUSEHOLD


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CHAPTER XIII


COLONIAL BUSINESS AND TRANSPORTATION


By A. P. Usher


386


TABLE OF POPULATION


386


STATISTICS (1765-1830)


386


VITAL STATISTICS


388


CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS OF


ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 389


390


AGRICULTURE


391


LIVESTOCK IN MASSACHUSETTS (1735-1767)


392


PROPORTION OF LIVESTOCK PER 100 PERSONS


393


USE OF LAND IN FARMS, 1760 AND 1767


394


EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LAND SYSTEM


394


PROPRIETORS AND COMMONERS


397


FOREST PRODUCTS


398


SHIPBUILDING .


.


NUMBER AND TONNAGE OF SHIPS BUILT 400


401


COD FISHERIES . .


403


SHIPPING EMPLOYED IN FISHERIES


(1771)


404


MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY


406


WOOLENS AND LINENS


408


SPECIALIZED INDUSTRIES


411


FOREIGN AND COASTWISE COMMERCE (1714, 1770)


411


EXPORTS AND IMPORTS (1763)


412


INFLUENCE OF BRITISH COMMERCIAL POLICY


414


INLAND TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL


415


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER XIV


FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS (1741-1763)


419


CAUSES OF WAR


419


RIVAL FORCES IN 1741


420


CAPTURE OF LOUISBURG (1745) 421


422


THE ALBANY CONGRESS OF 1754


424


SHIRLEY'S PLANS (1755)


426


THE ACADIAN QUESTION (1713-1755)


428


RENEWED PLANS OF CAMPAIGN (1756)


431


THE MASSACHUSETTS TROOPS (1756)


434


WAR GOVERNORS (1756-1769)


436


CAMPAIGN OF 1757


440


AMHERSTS CAMPAIGN OF 1758


442


CAPTURE OF QUEBEC (1759)


443


RECRUITING IN MASSACHUSETTS (1754-1763)


445


ARMS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE TROOPS


447


MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD


449


MILITARY LAND GRANTS


450


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


452


396


ROYAL REGULATION OF THE FORESTS


399


WHALE AND MACKEREL FISHERIES


405


IRON MINING AND MANUFACTURE


407


CORPORATE MANUFACTURES


410


CONDITIONS IN SOME TOWNS IN 1767


By George A. Plimpton


WESTERN AND NORTHERN CAMPAIGN (1755)


433


MONTCALM'S CAMPAIGNS (1756)


438


END OF THE WAR (1760-1763)


417


CONDITIONS IN BOSTON (1780)


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CHAPTER XV


CONTROVERSIES OVER BRITISH CONTROL (1753-1765)


By Clifford Chesley Hubbard


455


THE FRENCH PORTENT 455


PROPOSITION OF COMMON ACTION 456


MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSIONERS AT ALBANY (1754) 457


THE ALBANY PLAN (1754) 458


THE ALBANY PLAN IN MASSACHUSETTS (1754) 459


OBJECTIONS TO THE PLAN (1754)


461


ALTERNATIVE PLANS OF UNION 461


ACTION OF THE TOWNS (1754-1755) 462


GOVERNOR SHIRLEY'S IDEAS AS TO UNION (1754) 463


FRANKLIN'S IDEAS ON UNION 464


PLAN OF UNION SHELVED (1755)


466


THE BROAD ARROW QUESTION (1691-1775)


466


ENGLISH WRITS OF ASSISTANCE (To 1761)


468


LEGAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE WRITS (1761) 468


469


DOCTRINE OF ULTRA VIRES (1761)


470


IMPRESSMENT RIOTS (1747-1768)


471


SUGAR ACT OF 1764


473


ENFORCEMENT OF THE SUGAR ACT (1764-1765)


474


CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE OF TAXATION


476


MASSACHUSETTS PROTESTS AGAINST THE STAMP ACT (1765) 478


LIBERTY MOBS (1765)


479


THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS (1765) ·


480


THE STAMP ACT IGNORED (1765-1766)


482


INTER-COLONIAL PROTESTS (1765) 483


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


485


CHAPTER XVI


MASSACHUSETTS IN FERMENT (1766-1773)


By Viola F. Barnes 488


REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT (1766) ·


488


COLONIAL RECEPTION OF REPEAL (1766) 490


SAMUEL ADAMS AS THE LEADER (1750-1766) 491


CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN MASSACHUSETTS (1765-1766) 492


MASSACHUSETTS MERCHANTS AND RADICALS (1766) 493


DECLARATORY ACT AND TOWNSHEND ACTS (1766-1767) 494


THE COMMERCIAL BOYCOTT OF 1767 .


496


MASSACHUSETTS CIRCULAR LETTER (1768) 497


MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION OF 1768


498


FEAR OF AN AMERICAN EPISCOPATE 499


ACTIVITIES OF THE NEW CUSTOMS BOARD (1768)


500


BRITISH TROOPS AND "THE BOSTON MASSACRE" (1770)


502


REPEAL OF THE TOWNSHEND ACT AND EFFECT ON NON-


IMPORTATION (1770)


COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE (1772) 503


505


THE HUTCHINSON LETTERS (1773) 506


THE TEA ACT (1773) 508


THE BOSTON TEA PARTY (1773) 509


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


512


ARGUMENT OF OTIS (1761)


CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE OF THE STAMP ACT (1764-1765) 477


ATTITUDE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNMENT (1765) 482


REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE AND ARGUMENT (1766-1770)


501


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CHAPTER XVII


LAST CHANCE FOR THE EMPIRE (1774)


By James Phinney Munroe 514


Two ENDS OF THE EMPIRE 514


LACK OF UNDERSTANDING IN ENGLAND (1774)


515


THE CASE AGAINST MASSACHUSETTS (1774)


516


THE FIVE FATEFUL ACTS (1774)


517


THE BOSTON PORT BILL (1774)


518


INTERTOWN SYMPATHY (1774)


519


INTERCOLONIAL SYMPATHY (1774)


520


GENERAL AND GOVERNOR GAGE (1774)


523


THE BRITISH TROOPS (1774) .


524


PROTESTS OF OTHER COLONIES AND TOWNS (1774) 525


THE AMERICAN TORIES IN BOSTON (1774) 525


THE SEPARATISTS (1774)


527


POWER OF SAMUEL ADAMS (1774) 528


THE NEW HAMPSHIRE EPISODE (1774) 529


AMERICAN AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND (1774-1775) 530


WORK OF COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE (1774-1775) 531


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


532


CHAPTER XVIII


THE SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS (1774-1775)


By Lawrence S. Mayo


534


JOHN BULL AND JOHN CODLINE 534


COLONIAL SENTIMENT 536


CONSERVATISM OF THE MERCHANTS 537


"THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT" (JUNE, 1774) 539


DEFEAT OF THE MERCHANTS (JUNE 28, 1774) 541


AVERAGE PUBLIC SENTIMENT 543


CALLING THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1774) 544


THE PORT BILL CRITICISED 545 .


THE MANDAMUS COUNCILLORS (AUGUST, 1774) .


546


THE SUFFOLK RESOLVES ( SEPTEMBER, 1774)


548


ATTITUDE OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (SEPTEMBER, 1774)


550


EFFECT OF THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS (DECEMBER, 1774)


552


BRITISH EXPEDITION TO SALEM (FEBRUARY 26, 1775)


553


MASSACRE ORATIONS (1771-1775) 554


WARREN'S ORATION (MARCH 6, 1775) 555


557


PUBLIC OPINION


559


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


CHAPTER XIX


THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1775


By Allen French 562


THE BRITISH IN BOSTON 562


PLAN OF DESTRUCTION OF STORES 563


THE WARNINGS FROM BOSTON 563


PAUL REVERE'S RIDE 564


THE BRITISH EXPEDITION


565


MILITARY OCCUPATION (MAY-SEPTEMBER, 1774) 547


550


THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS (OCTOBER, 1774)


521


OBSTINACY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1774)


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BRITISH MARCH TO LEXINGTON


THE MINUTE MEN


567


PREPARATIONS AT LEXINGTON


568


REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGINS


570


ALARM AT CONCORD


571


PREPARATIONS AT CONCORD


572


DISPOSITION OF THE Two FORCES


573


DESTRUCTION BY THE BRITISH


573


THE AMERICAN DEFENSIVE


575


THE AMERICAN OFFENSIVE


575


DECISION TO FIGHT


576


FIGHT AT THE BRIDGE


577


PREPARATIONS FOR BRITISH RETREAT


578


THE RUNNING FIGHT


579


PERCY'S RELIEF COLUMN


580


RELIEF CORPS AT LEXINGTON


581


BRITISH RETREAT


582


THROUGH CAMBRIDGE TO SOMERVILLE


583


RETURN TO BOSTON


585


SIGNIFICANCE OF THE


DAY


586


SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY


587


APPENDIX : LIST OF COLONIAL OFFICERS DURING THE PROVINCIAL PERIOD (1691-1775)


590


566


RECEPTION AT LEXINGTON GREEN


569


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Towns of Modern Massachusetts in the Order of Their Settlement


Front and Back Covers Frontispiece


Facing page


8


Sir William Phips


66


66


40


Samuel Sewall


66


50


Generalized Map of Principal Offensive Move-


ments of Massachusetts Troops, 1690 to 1723


66


66


The Earl of Bellomont


66


76


New Settlements and Successive Frontiers


102


Map of Cambridge and Vicinity, 1759


66


116


William Dummer


66


66


142


Wait Winthrop


66


170


Thomas Hutchinson


66


188


Rough Draft for the First Paper


66


66


218


Means of Finance in the French and Indian Wars The Bonner Map of Boston in 1722


66


226


Advertisements from The Boston News-Letter for October 4-11, 1739


66


262


The Boston Gazette on Society and Politics, 1770 Tap Room, The Wayside Inn, South Sudbury


276


A Page of Moral Advice from The New England Primer


306


Cotton Mather's Manuscript for a Sermon Preached September 1, 1702


66


334


Title Page of Cotton Mather's Magnalia


342


An Eighteenth Century Lady, Mrs. Mary Ann Jones


360


Kitchen of a Typical Eighteenth Century Home: Ward House, Salem


370


Density of Population in Massachusetts, 1765


¥


410


Early Industrial Massachusetts


410


Generalized Map of Principal Offensive Operations of Massachusetts Troops in the French and Indian Wars


66


434


Governor Shirley's Call for Troops


66


444


A Page from John Boyd's "Orderly Book"


450


A "Stamp Act" Stamp and its Reverse


66


480


Violators of the Non-Importation Agreement Ex- posed


66


480


Benjamin Franklin


66


500


General Thomas Gage


66


66


528


Samuel Adams


61


556


The Battle of Lexington


570


Contemporary Plan of the Concord Fight


574


The Fight at the North Bridge in Concord


66


578


66


134


William Shirley


182


Peter Oliver


Money in English-Speaking America


218


276


Jonathan Edwards


Boston, 1732-1736


390


524


Robert Treat Paine


540


Joseph Warren


xiii


Cotton Mather


The Charter of 1692


18


Warrant for the Hanging of Bridget Bishop


66


292


CHAPTER I


POLITICAL HISTORY


THE PROVINCE CHARTER (1689-1715)


BY MARCUS W. JERNEGAN Professor of American History, University of Chicago


GROUNDWORK OF THE COMMONWEALTH (1630-1691)


The Massachusetts Charter of 1691 marks the beginning of a new epoch in the history of Massachusetts. The issues involved, however, go back to the time of John Winthrop. Even then two parties existed in Massachusetts; those repre- sented by the magistrates and clergy ; and those "who were not of the churches." The clerical party was also divided, especially from the time of Roger Williams, into a conservative and a much smaller radical group. The political history of Massa- chusetts in the seventeenth century was thus greatly influenced by the effort of the conservative clerical party to maintain its power; not only against the more democratic non-church member group, but also against the more liberal elements within the church.


The methods by which the ruling party consolidated its power have been described in previous chapters. They made church membership a prerequisite to admission to the company, and hence to the franchise. They confined the chief officers of state to a small body composed of the "elder statesmen." Power was given to the upper house, composed of Governor, Deputy Governor, and Assistants, to negative the acts of the lower house. They concentrated most of the judicial power in the hands of the Assistants. They recognized a super-government, a virtual "third house," in the persons of the clergy. They sub- ordinated civil government to the ideals of a theocratic state, largely directed by a select and compact group of leaders who strenuously opposed religious toleration. Thus they imposed


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an obligation on all property owners to support the established (Congregational) church. All these factors influenced the events which led up to the new charter and explain in part the nature of that frame of government.


On the other hand, throughout this régime numerous pro- tests were made from time to time by the unenfranchised; and efforts were repeated to enlarge church membership by allow- ing a less strict test of orthodoxy. Another influence was the rise of representative government and the increase in the power and influence of the deputies. The colony franchise was sometimes extended to those who were not strictly ortho- dox; and in the town governments many non-church members voted. The enactment of legal codes from time to time had a restraining influence on the "elder statesmen" and the clergy.


Some checks to religious intolerance helped to increase the proportion of leaders of the second and third genera- tions who were more liberal-minded than those of the first. Lack of unanimity also increased, because of commercial activity, the influence of wealth and of the growing proportion of non-church members. All these factors helped to promote the growth of a permanent moderate party opposed to the clerical party.


BASIS OF A NEW GOVERNMENT (1692)


Besides these internal influences, the course of the contro- versies with England led the mother country to single out Massachusetts as the most dangerous of all the colonies. She resented the independent attitude of that colony ; its leadership in the formation of the New England Confederation; its op- position to the Navigation Acts; the domineering attitude to- wards the neighboring colonies; the acquisition of contiguous territory; the growing tendency to become a trade competitor with England. This feeling was aggravated by the numerous complaints made by the more liberal elements with respect to arbitrary and intolerant government, a continuous cause of contest. Finally England resented the scant attention which Massachusetts paid to letters from the King and to a royal commission respecting intolerance, restriction of the franchise, violation of the charter, the passage of laws contrary to Eng- lish law and denial of appeals from colonial courts.


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THE INTERREGNUM


Clearly these sets of factors and the collapse of the Andros régime and discredit of the Dominion Plan of government greatly influenced the tenor of the new Province Charter of 1691. The period from 1684 to 1691 intensified the struggle between the old theocracy, which was anxious to recover the old charter and to reintroduce the old order, and the more moderate party which looked towards a new order and was hostile to the clerical party in State and Church. Many great land owners, merchants and ship owners, as well as small shopkeepers and farmers, were becoming more interested in economic advance and more amicable trade relations with England than in the restoration of the old intolerant govern- ment in Church and State.




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