At a Court held on May 31, 1670, we read: The legislation that led to the next publication of the General Laws, in 1672, extended over two years. The General Laws of Massachusetts were first published in 1648, and they were again published in 1660, no Laws having been printed between those years. Albert Matthews made the following communication: NOTE ON THE 1672 EDITION AND THE 1675 VOLUME OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL LAWS 4 Morison read a paper on the Religious History of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 1692–1750. Nathaniel Thayer Kidder, William Roscoe Thayer, and Archibald Cary Coolidge as delegates from this Society to the Thirteenth Annual Conference of Historical Societies in Cincinnati on 28 December in connection with the meeting of the American Historical Association. The announcement was made of the appointment of Messrs. Edmund Burke Delabarre, both of Providence, Rhode Island, were elected Corresponding Members. Nathaniel Thayer Kidder accepting Resident Membership. The Corresponding Secretary reported that a letter had been received from Mr. The Records of the Annual Meeting were read and approved. Exercises at the Presentation of the Thomas Hutchinson Memorial Doorway to the First Church, Boston, 5 November, 1917:Ī Stated Meeting of the Society was held in the house of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, on Thursday, 28 December, 1916, at three o’clock in the afternoon, the President, Fred Norris Robinson, Ph.D., in the chair.State of the Trade, 1763, communicated by Charles McLean Andrews.Memoir of Frederick Lewis Gay, by George Parker Winship.Committee to Examine the Treasurer’s Accounts appointed.

Committee to Nominate Officers appointed.Remarks on a Correspondence between Captain Charles Harrison and Captain Thomas Martin, 1749–1757, by Julius Herbert Tuttle.Letters of John Custis, 1687, communicated by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

Photograph of a Manuscript of a Work by John Cotton, exhibited by Chester Noyes Greenough.Letter of Benjamin Colman, Jr., dated 28 June, 1748, communicated by George Lyman Kittredge.Samuel Osborn of Eastham, by George Parker Winship

Remarks on the Controversy between the Rev.

Thomas Prince, 1737, communicated by Albert Matthews

Two Letters of Daniel Webster, written in 18, read by Arthur Lord.

The King’s Gift to Christ Church, Boston, 1733, by Edward Percival Merritt.

Letter to the Selectmen or Committee of Safety of Greenland, New Hampshire, dated 10 January, 1776, communicated by John Whittemore Farwell.

Ephraim Eliot’s Private Report of the Harvard Class of 1780, communicated by Samuel Eliot Morison.

Notes on Early Autopsies and Anatomical Lectures, by Albert Matthews.

Remarks on the John Adams Library, by Lindsay Swift.

Letter of Nehemiah Hobart dated 29 March, 1712, communicated by Clarence Saunders Brigham.

Hook, 1760, communicated by Julius Herbert Tuttle

Letters of Nathaniel Ames, 1758, and of W.

A Generation of Expansion and Inflation in Massachusetts History, 1713–1741, by Samuel Eliot Morison 2.

Boston Merchants and the Non-Importation Movement, by Charles McLean Andrews.

Copy of La Nouvelle Testament, 1730, exhibited by John Whittemore Farwell.

Satirical Coat of Arms of the Porcellian Club of Harvard College, 1793, exhibited by Henry Herbert Edes.

Letters of Increase Mather dated 28 March, 1698, and of Cotton Mather dated 26 November, 8 December, 1703, communicated by Julius Herbert Tuttle.

Middle Period of Dighton Rock History, by Edmund Burke Delabarre.

Delegates to the Thirteenth Annual Conference of Historical Societies appointed.

Note on the word Pilgrim, by Albert Matthews.

Account of Expenses of a Journey from Boston to New Jersey, about 1688, communicated by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

List of Captive Indian Children, 1676, communicated by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

Letter of Samuel Davies dated 11 August, 1758, communicated by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

Account of a List of Books imported into Boston by John Usher between 16, by Worthington Chauncey Ford.

Note on the 1672 Edition and the 1675 Volume of the Massachusetts General Laws, by Albert Matthews.

Memoir of William Cross Williamson, by Grace Williamson Edes.

The Religious History of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, by Samuel Eliot Morison 1.

Silver Teapot presented to William Kneeland in 1763, now owned by Harvard College, exhibited by Alfred Claghorn Potter.

Appreciation of the Services rendered to the Society by President Turner.

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