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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    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.
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    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.
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    The Acts And Resolves, Public And Private, Of The Province Of The Massachusetts Bay Page 268, Image 298 (1869) § 3
    (General Publisher, 1697)
    That no person or persons whatsoever, in any town or garrison, shall presume to discharge or shoot off any gun or guns after the shutting in of the daylight in the evening, or before daylight in the morning, unless in case of alarm, approach of the enemy, or other necessary defense, on pain that every person so offending, and being thereof convicted before one or more of his majestie’s justices of the peace, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten shillings, one moiety thereof to and for the use of the poor of the town where the offence is committed, and the other moiety to him or them that shall inform or prosecute for the same. And in case such offender shall not have wherewith to answer the said fine, or shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, then to be set in the stocks, not exceeding two hours’ time: provided, that this act shall remain and continue in force during the present war, and no longer.
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    1694 Mass. Laws 12, no. 6, An Act for the Punishing of Criminal Offenders.
    (General Publisher, 1694)
    Further it is Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every Justice of the Peace in the County where the Offence is committed , may cause to be staid and arrested all Affrayers, Rioters, Disturbers, or Breakers of the Peace, and such as shall ride or go armed Offensively before any of their Majesties Justices, or other Their Officers or Ministers doing their Office or elsewhere.
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    1693 Mass. Acts 48, An Act for Regulating of the Militia, ch. 3, §§ 1, 5
    (General Publisher, 1693)
    . That all male persons from sixteen years of age to sixty, (other than such as are herein after excepted), shall bear arms, and duly attend all musters and military exercises of the respective troops and companies where they are listed . . . § 5 That every listed solider and other householder (except troopers) shall be always provided with a well fixed firelock musket, or musket or bastard musket bore . . .
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    1692 Mass. Acts and Laws no. 6, pp. 11-12
    (General Publisher, 1692)
    Prohibited riding or going armed offensively to cause fear or affray of the people.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.

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