Robertson. Chalmer. Stith. Beverly.
[28] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith. Beverly.
[29] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[30] Robertson.
[31] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[32] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[33] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[34] Mr. Stith says the price for a wife was at first, one hundred, and afterwards, one hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco; and a debt so contracted was made of higher dignity than any other.
[35] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[36] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[37] Ibid.
[38] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[39] Robertson. Chalmer. Stith.
[40] Robertson. Chalmer.
[41] Robertson. Chalmer.
[42] Idem.
[43] Robertson. Chalmer.
[44] Chalmer. Robertson.
[45] Chalmer.
[46] Chalmer.
[47] Robertson.
[48] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[49] Robertson.
[50] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[51] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[52] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[53] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[54] Robertson.
[55] Robertson.
[56] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[57] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[58] Robertson. Chalmer. Hutchison.
[59] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[60] Hutchison.
[61] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[62] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[63] Hume.
[64] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[65] Chalmer.
[66] All the powers of government for nearly three years, seem to have been in the magistrates. Two were appointed in each town, who directed all the affairs of the plantation. The freemen appear to have had no voice in making the laws, or in any part of the government except in some instances of general and uncommon concern. In these instances committees were sent from the several towns to a general meeting. During this term, juries seem not to have been employed in any case.
[67] Chalmer. Hutchison. Trumbull.
[68] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[69] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[70] Chalmer. Hutchison.
[71] Hutchison.
[72] This was an union, says Mr. Trumbull, of the highest consequence to the New England colonies. It made them formidable to the Dutch and Indians, and respectable among their French neighbours. It was happily adapted to maintain harmony among themselves, and to secure the rights and peace of the country. It was one of the principal means of the preservation of the colonies, during the civil wars, and unsettled state of affairs in England. It was the great source of mutual defence in Philip's war; and of the most eminent service in civilising the Indians, and propagating the Gospel among them. The union subsisted more than forty years, until the abrogation of the charters of the New England colonies by King James II.
[73] Chalmer. Hutchison. Trumbull.
[74] Chalmer.
[75] Ibid.
[76] In the subsequent year Parliament exempted New England from all taxes "until both houses should otherwise direct;" and, in
