Massachusetts
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The Massachusetts Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and regional developments within Massachusetts. This Collection provides a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals exploring the historical significance and cultural evolution of this prominent state.
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Item Open Access The Charters And General Laws Of The Colony And Province Of Massachusetts Bay Page 190, Image 197 (1814); Colony Laws. § 4.(General Publisher, 1663)Be it also enacted by the authority of this court, that no masters of ships, or seamen, having their vessels riding within any of our harbors in this jurisdiction, shall presume to drink healths, or suffer any healths to be drunk within their vessels by day or night, or to shoot off any gun after the daylight is past, or on the sabbath day, on penalty for every health twenty shillings, and for every gun so shot twenty shillings.Item Open Access THE COMPACT WITH THE CHARTER AND LAWS OF THE COLONY OF NEW PLYMOUTH 115 (William Brigham ed., 1836) (changing Apr. 1 to Mar. 1)(General Publisher, 1658)Required that one quarter of each militia to be armed during Sunday church services. Each militia member required to have a firearm, sword, three charges of powder and bullets. Violators fined two shillies and si pence for each day's neglect.Item Open Access THE COMPACT WITH THE CHARTER AND LAWS OF THE COLONY OF NEW PLYMOUTH 102 (William Brigham ed., 1836) (enacted 1656) ( Apr. 1 through Nov. 30)(General Publisher, 1657)Required the militia of every township to bring arms during Sunday church services. Violators fined twelve pence for every default.Item Open Access Records Of The Colony Of New Plymouth In New England. Boston, 1861 Page 66, Image 77(General Publisher, 1656)Laws of Plymouth Colony (1656). And likewise that no Indian shall discharge any gun on the Lords day at any thing to the breach of the Sabbath and disturbance of the English; as they will answer it at their peril.Item Open Access 1647: Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts, reprinted in The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts 28 (Harvard Univ. Press 1929)(General Publisher, 1647)Prohibited the repairing, selling, and giving of “any Indian” a gun, ammunition, or armour, punishable by fine.Item Open Access 2 RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND 134 (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff ed. 1853) (enacted 1645).(General Publisher, 1645)Required "all inhabitants" to obtain arms for defense of themselves and the country. Muskets are to be full musket boare or basterd musket. No rifles should be under three foot nine inches in length, nor above four foot three inches.Item Open Access 2 BACKGROUNDS OF SELECTIVE SERVICE: MILITARY OBLIGATION: THE AMERICAN TRADITION, Part 6 (Massachusetts), at 26, 31 (1645). (Arthur Vollmer ed., 1947)(General Publisher, 1645)Ordered all youth aged ten to sixteen shall be instructed in the exercise of arms like small guns, half-pikes, bows and arrows.Item Open Access Powder, § 2, MASS ACTS (Rockwell & Churchill 1889) (Passed 1645).(General Publisher, 1645)That no Perso (except for the defence of themselves and their vessels at Sea) shall transport any Gunpowder out of this jurisdiction, without License first obteined, from some two of the Magistrates, upon penalty of forfeiting all such powder as shall be transporting or transported, or the value thereof;"Item Open Access 2 RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND 190 (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff ed., 1853) (enacted 1638)(General Publisher, 1638)Military officers in every town shall appoint what arms are brought to public meetings. Also allowed officers to mandate safe disposure of ammuniation to prevent acquisition by an enemy.Item Open Access 1 RECORDS OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND 190 (Nathaniel B. Shurtleff ed., 1853) (enacted 1637)(General Publisher, 1636)No person shall travel above one mile from his home, except where other homes are near each other, without some arms. Violators fined "12d" for each violation.