Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in entry massachusetts of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...ed upon the minds of many citizens of Salem that they refused to follow the standard with the cross upon it. At about that time the British government, jealous of the independent spirit manifested in Massachusetts , watched its development with great vigilance, and the enemies of the colony pointed to this mutilation of the standard as evidence of disloyalty to the crown. It was simply loyalty to bigotry. T...
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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 30,598 2,310 0 0 0 user votes

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