Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 4 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition.:

...ll to restrain bills of credit in New England, with an additional clause giving the authority of law to the king's instructions on that subject. In the dan- gerous precedent, Bollan, the agent for Massachusetts , discerned the latent purpose of introducing by degrees the same authority to control other articles. He argued, moreover, that the province had a natural and lawful right to make use of its credit...
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Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) 30,598 120 0 0 0 user votes

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