Book/Printed Material [Volume 3] Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Volume 3
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- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 9 of Volume 3 PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SePFOLK COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS EIN Md ch Ila Ih VAIL OIE SS VOI TIME iT Wllustratcd THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY 1894
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 11 of Volume 3 CONTE NGS Page CONS RELURIONATE HISTOR YsORS BOSTON 22222222 22222 es 9 C W Ernst MEDICAL PROFESSION OF SUFFOLK COUNTY 174 Epwarp Jacop Forster M D SIRE Dee A AVWiAN Ve ovo…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 15 of Volume 3 CONSTIVORION AL HISTOR Y OF BOSTON IMI ASCSACHUSETIS AN ESSAY BY C W ERNST A M SECRETARY OF THE MAYORS OFFICE 188999 COLONIAL PERIOD 16380 TO 1692 Two things helped to make…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 16 of Volume 3 10 BOSTON granary of the United States and Europe For it is easier and cheaper to send grain from the freshwater lakes to New York than to Boston Nature provided a way…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 17 of Volume 3 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 11 England and its controversies in church and state made the new world attractive But the immediate precedent for the NewEngland enterprise was the success that had attended the charter…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 18 of Volume 3 12 BOSTON the freemen the Assistants and the Governor combined was called the Great and General Court Under the patent of 1629 the Governor and Company of Massachu setts were to be…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 19 of Volume 3 CONST ROTMONAT HISTORY we rapidly As soon asa town was named or otherwise recognized by the General Court it was deemed to be incorporated and even a table of precedency among towns…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 20 of Volume 3 14 BOSTON ment they made would have failed They came here to improve their con dition that is to sayto flourish as they could not in England They knew what they wanted…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 21 of Volume 3 GONSTTLUBRIONALE HISTORY a or age they had the English Bible which gave to New England the purity of its speech But what was uppermost in the minds of the NewEngland Puritan was…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 22 of Volume 3 16 BOSTON admitted freemen by a vote of the ruling body itself elected by the freemen In London a prerequisite of freemen was their admission to a city guild usually procured by…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 23 of Volume 3 CONSTILULIONAL HISTORY 17 suffrage has never been wholly avoided When the Company es tablished by the patent became too numerous for all freemen to take part in the Great and General Court…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 24 of Volume 3 co a BOSTON spective respectful manner Mass Col Laws 1660 ed Whitmore 50 The right to vote of course was reserved to the freemen The General Court was always chosen by freemen…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 25 of Volume 3 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 19 of their own towns not repugnant to the laws and orders here estab lished by the General Court as also to lay mulcts and penalties for the breach of…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 26 of Volume 3 20 BOSTON executive officer of the town in all police matters he was to whip or punish any to be punished by order of authority to arrest offenders to supervise the licensed…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 29 of Volume 3 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 21 townes men to the sayd Select men a form apparently preferred by the general laws while the Boston men soon spoke of selectmen and wrote as they spoke It…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 30 of Volume 3 22 BOSTON the town meeting had not spoken the selectmen were yet bound to act where the welfare of the town was concerned they administered also the bylaws of the town and…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 31 of Volume 3 GONSTMEUOITONAL HISTORY 23 It is this which entitles the colonial period of our municipal institu tions to peculiar respect To belittle those days seems ungracious and unfilial to measure them by the…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 32 of Volume 3 24 BOSTON wards Penn and Pennsylvania showed how to do these things better the roads and ways being laid out first and the lands occupied after wards Massachusetts was less wise partly…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 33 of Volume 3 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY 25 grandeur remembers that from the beginning Boston was paramount in Suffolk County All that is now known as Suffolk County except Charlestown Roxbury and Dorchester with South Boston was…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 34 of Volume 3 26 BOSTON powers and perform all the duties which before and until the passing of this Act were had and performed by the Court of Sessions except ing as otherwise provided for…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 35 of Volume 3 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY Qi be as free as powerful and as ambitious as the government of which he forms part Boston THE CAPITAL The seventeenth day of September 1630 is commonly mentioned as…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 36 of Volume 3 28 BOSTON General Court while every other town sent two 5 Mass Records 305 Again and again Boston asked to be made a city and was always re fused It asked that…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 37 of Volume 3 GONSTEROTIONALE HISTORY 29 Boston SELECTMEN The character of the Boston selectmen is significant and shows that municipal pride is always conservative First in the list is the incom parable John Winthrop his…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 38 of Volume 3 30 BOSTON 1641 the constables who collected the tax were ordered to pay unto Robert Turner for diet for the townsmen the selectmen 2 18s 1 63 shortly after the order was…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 39 of Volume 3 CONSTIRUTIONAL HISTORY 31 In 1659 the town ordered that there shall be a moderator chosen annually to regulate publick towne meetings the first moderator so chosen being William Davis 1 c 152…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
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Image 40 of Volume 3 32 BOSTON began with metropolitan proportions but began to lose in 1640 and to regain in 1804 Boston used to choose constables and surveyors of highways for both Muddy River Brockline and…
- Contributor: Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
- Date: 1894
About this Item
Title
- [Volume 3] Professional and industrial history of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Names
- Davis, William T. (William Thomas), 1822-1907.
Created / Published
- [Boston, Mass.] : Boston History Co., 1894.
Headings
- - Suffolk County (Mass.)--History
- - Suffolk County (Mass.)--Biography
- - Industries--Massachusetts--Suffolk County
- - Boston (Mass.)--History
- - Industries--Massachusetts--Boston
- - Lawyers--Massachusetts--Suffolk County
Notes
- - Vol. 1 has title: History of the bench and bar / by William T. Davis.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 3 v. : ports. ; 26 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F72.S9 P9
OCLC Number
- 882393
Online Format
- online text
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