Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Rev. Nathaniel Ward” in entry massachusetts of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

...ws of Massachusetts. They were taken entirely from the Old Testament. It was found that they were not adapted to a state of society so different from that of the Hebrews in the time of Moses, and Rev. Nathaniel Ward , who was familiar with the Roman as well as the Jewish laws, drew up a code which was substituted for Cotton's in 1641. The first article of this code provided that the rights of person and propert...
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