Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in entry state-of-rhode-island of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... of the inhabitants—heads of families— for the public good.
For some time the government was administered by means of town-meetings.
In 1638 William Coddington and others, driven from Massachusetts by persecution, bought of the Indians the island of Aquiday or Aquitneck, and made settlements on the site of Newport and Portsmouth.
A third settlement was formed at Warwick, on the mainland, in 1...
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| † | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 2,310 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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