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 Act of Mar. 14, 1776, ch. VII, 1775-76 Mass. Act 31 - 32, 35(General Publisher, 1776)Recommended the disarming of persons who are “notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who refuse to associate to defend by arms the United American Colonies.”Item Open Access 1775 Mass. Acts 15, An Act For Forming And Regulating The Militia Within The Colony Of The Massachusetts Bay, In New England, And For Repealing All The Laws Heretofore Made For That Purpose, ch. 1, §§ 1,7,9.(General Publisher, 1775)§ 1. . . That that part of the militia of this Colony, commonly called the Training-Band, shall be constituted of all the able-bodied male persons therein, from sixteen years old to fifty [excepting Quakers and others]. . . § 7. . . That each and every officer, and private soldier of said militia, not under the controul of parents, master, or gaurdians, and being of sufficient ability therefor, in the judgement of the select-men if the town wherein he has his usual place of abode, shall equip himself, and be constantly provided with a good firearm. . . § 9 . . . That the clerk of each and every company of said militia, shall . . . take an exact list of his company, and of each man’s equipment respectively. .Item Open Access A Collection of Original Papers Relative to The History of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay 492 (1769)(General Publisher, 1769)Prohibited the selling or bartering guns, ammunition, and swords to “any Indian,” punishable by fine.Item Open Access The Massachusetts Resolves (Oct. 29, 1765), reprinted in Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766, p. 56 (E. Morgan ed. 1959)(General Publisher, 1765)Resolved that Massachusetts subjects have the same rights as are present and essential for natural born subjects.Item Open Access 1757 Mass. Acts 323, An Act in Addition to the Several Acts of This Province for Regulating the Militia, ch. 12(General Publisher, 1757).. That the Captain or Chief Officer of each military foot company, shall instruct and employ his Company in military exercises six days in a year . . . and on each of said days he shall make a strict enquiry into the state of the arms and ammunition of his Company . . . that every person from the age of sixteen to sixty, not exempted by law, shall appear with arms and ammunition according to law, and attend his duty each of the aforesaid days. . .Item Open Access 1749-51 Mass. Acts 339, An Act for Preventing and Suppressing of Riots, Routs and Unlawful Assemblies, ch. 12.(General Publisher, 1751)if any Persons to the Number of Twelve or more, being Arm’d with Clubs or other Weapons, or if any Number of Persons consisting of Fifty or upwards, whether armed or not, shall be unlawfully riotously or tumultuously assembled; any Justice of the Peace, Field-Officer or Captain of the Militia, Sheriff of the County or Under-Sheriff, or any Constable of the Town, shall among the Rioters, or as near to them as he can safely come, command Silence while Proclamation is making, and shall openly make Proclamation in these or the like Words,Item Open Access 1750 Mass. Acts 544, An Act for Preventing and Suppressing of Riots, Routs and Unlawful Assemblies, ch. 17, § 1(General Publisher, 1750)Prohibited the carrying of a club or other weapon while unlawfully, riotously, or tumultuously assembling. Punishable by seizing the weapon and a hearing before the court.Item Open Access Act of May 28, 1746, ch. X, Acts and Laws of Mass. Bay, p. 208(General Publisher, 1746)Prohibited the indiscreet firing of any gun or pistol in the town under penalty of forty shillings.