Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 5 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:

...interest constituted a public revenue, obtained, it was boasted, without taxation. The system spread rapidly. In 1712, South Carolina issued, in this manner, a bank of fortyeight thousand pounds. Massachusetts , which for twenty years had used bills of credit for public purposes, in 1714, authorized an emission of fifty thousand pounds in bills, to be put into the hands of five trustees, and let out at five...
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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 30,598 162 0 0 0 user votes

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