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.:

...by fostering the numbers and wealth of their inhabitants, were creating formidable antagonists to English industry, and nursing a disposition to rebellion. To this it was answered, by the agent for Massachusetts , that the three New England colonies held their charters by compact, having obtained them as a consideration for the labor of those who redeemed the wilderness and annexed it to the English dominio...
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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 30,598 162 0 0 0 user votes

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