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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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a convention to form said Constitution of government, said convention may consist of no person or persons belonging to said General Court. A new movement was made, and another convention called; separate counties held preparatory meetings; and, October, 1779, Stephen Willis, 3d, was chosen Delegate to meet in convention at Concord. When the town came to act on the doings of this convention, as they regarded a new Constitution of civil government for the State, the record says:-- July 29, 1779: The whole of the proceedings of the convention at Concord was read, paragraph by paragraph, and then voted upon separately; and it was unanimously voted that we comply with the same. The draft of the new Constitution for Massachusetts was at last prepared; and, May 28, 1780, Medford accepted it, with a few exceptions. The record is as follows. The Committee report:-- We apprehend that the Governor, with the advice of the Council, should, in the recess of the General Court,