Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 12, page 177 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:
...r them in almost any thing except the explicit denial of the authority of Parliament. It would have been ill for American Independence, if a man like him had been sent to Massachusetts.
But with Massachusetts , said Camden, it will not be very difficult to deal, if that is the only disobedient Province.
For Boston his voice did not entreat mercy. The cry was, it must be made to
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