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 COMPACT WITH THE CHARTER AND LAWS OF THE COLONY OF NEW PLYMOUTH 102 (William Brigham ed., 1836) (enacted 1675) (Year-Round)(General Publisher, 1675)Required everyone to bring arms to Sunday church services, furnishing six charges of powder and shot. The penalty is two shillings for violations.Item Open Access Records Of The Colony Of New Plymouth In New England. Boston Page 230, Image 241 (1861)(General Publisher, 1671)Laws of Plymouth Colony (1671). Whereas several persons have been greatly endangered by setting of guns, it is enacted by the Court and the authority thereof that none shall sett any guns except in enclosures and that the gun be sufficiently enclosed so as it be secure from hurting man or beast and that he that setteth the gun do give warning or notice thereof to all the neighbors on penalty of paying a fine of five pounds to the use of the Colony for every default.Item Open Access Records of The Colony of New Plymouth in New England 173 (1856)(General Publisher, 1676)Prohibited the selling, bartering, and giving of arms or ammunition to “any Indian,” punishable by death.Item Open Access Records Of The Colony Of New Plymouth In New England Page 177, Image 183 (1856)(General Publisher, 1675)that whoever shall shoot of any gun on any necessary occasion, or at any game whatsoever, except at an Indian or a wolf, shall forfeit five shillings for every such shot, till further liberty shall be given.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.