Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 6, page 65 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition.:
...ad not yet finished the statues which it was raising to Chatham; and Mauduit artfully sent over word, that the plan for reducing America would be sanctioned by his name.
On the tenth of April, Massachusetts was selected for censure; and Bedford, —notwithstanding the sudden
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