RECORDS

OF

MASSACHUSETTS.

VOL. II.

1642-1649.

OF

THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS BAY

IN

NEW ENGLAND.

PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATURE.

EDITED BY

NATHANIEL B. SHURTLEFF, M.D.,

MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND MEMBER OF THE
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

REMARKS.

This second volume of the printed records comprises all that is contained in the second volume of manuscript Colony Records. All the general remarks which relate to the first volume are equally applicable to this.

The names of such as took the oath of freemen from 1642 to 1649, inclusive, have been collected together and printed at the end of the volume, and have an index immediately following that of general subjects.

The miscellaneous orders which appertain to the period embraced in this volume are recorded in a book appropriated for that purpose, and which is numbered as the third volume of Colony Records.

NOVEMBER, 1853.

N. B. S.

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