Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel Goffe” in chapter 16 of Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register:
...t that said office may forthwith be removed into our town, according to law, it being the shire-town in said county.
By the records of the General Court it appears that on the 8th of June, 1716, Colonel Goffe complained that no office for the registry of deeds was open in Cambridge, being the shire-town of Middlesex; the Representative of Charlestown insisted that his town was the shire; and a hearing was...
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