| Endsheet Map: “Massachusetts Towns Vote on the Constitution” |
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| Half Title Page |
pg.i |
| Title Page |
pg.iii |
| Copyright Page |
pg.iv |
| Dedication |
pg.v |
| Editorial Advisory Committee |
pg.vi |
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Contents |
pg.vii |
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Acknowledgments |
pg.xxiii |
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Organization |
pg.xxv |
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Editorial Procedures |
pg.xxvii |
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General Ratification Chronology, 1786-1791 |
pg.xxviii |
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Calendar for the Years 1787-1788 |
pg.xxxi |
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Symbols |
pg.xxxii |
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Massachusetts Chronology, 1776-1790 |
pg.xxxv |
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Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1787-1788 |
pg.xxxix |
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Title Page |
pg.475 |
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Blank |
pg.476 |
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III. The Debate over the Constitution in
Massachusetts October 1787-12 February 1788 (continued) |
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Cotton Tufts to Abigail
Adams, Weymouth, 18 December |
pg.477 |
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Joseph Ward to Penuel Bowen, Boston, 18 December |
pg.478 |
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Cassius VI, Massachusetts Gazette, 18 December |
pg.479 |
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Agrippa VII, Massachusetts Gazette, 18 December |
pg.483 |
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Candour, Massachusetts Centinel, 19 December |
pg.486 |
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Anti-Cincinnatus, Hampshire Gazette, 19 December |
pg.487 |
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Joseph Barrell to Nathaniel Barrell, Boston, 20 December |
pg.490 |
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Candidus II, Independent Chronicle, 20 December |
pg.493 |
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Cassius VI, Massachusetts Gazette, 21 December |
pg.500 |
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Ocrico, Massachusetts Gazette, 21 December |
pg.504 |
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Massachusetts Centinel, 22 December |
pg.504 |
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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, Newburyport, 23
December |
pg.505 |
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Christopher Gore to George Thatcher, Boston, 23 December |
pg.505 |
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Christopher Gore to Rufus King, Boston, 23 December |
pg.506 |
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Poplicola, Boston Gazette, 24 December |
pg.507 |
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Cassius VI, Massachusetts Gazette, 25 December |
pg.511 |
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Agrippa VIII, Massachusetts Gazette, 25 December |
pg.515 |
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Massachusetts Gazette, 25 December |
pg.517 |
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Massachusetts Gazette, 25 December |
pg.518 |
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Salem Mercury, 25 December |
pg.518 |
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Candidus (Spurious), Massachusetts Centinel, 26 December |
pg.518 |
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Thomas a Kempis, Massachusetts Centinel, 26 December |
pg.521 |
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Massachusetts Centinel, 26 December |
pg.522 |
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§ Editors' Note: The Raising of the First Three Pillars to
the Federal Superstructure, Massachusetts Centinel, 26 December |
pg.524 |
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Nathan Dane to Henry Knox, Beverly, 27 December, and
Boston, 30 December |
pg.526 |
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Remarker, Independent Chronicle, 27 December |
pg.527 |
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Atticus IV, Independent Chronicle, 27 December |
pg.531 |
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Helvidius Priscus I, Independent Chronicle, 27 December |
pg.534 |
|
New York Journal, 27 December |
pg.539 |
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Agrippa IX, Massachusetts Gazette, 28 December |
pg.540 |
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Captain M'Daniel |
pg.542 |
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Massachusetts Gazette, 28 December |
pg.542 |
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The Circulation of the Letters from the Federal Farmer
in Massachusetts, 28 December 1787-7 January 1788 |
pg.543 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 28 December |
pg.544 |
|
American Herald, 31 December |
pg.545 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.545 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.545 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.546 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.546 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 1
January |
pg.547 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 2 January |
pg.547 |
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American Herald, 7 January |
pg.547 |
|
American Herald, 7 January |
pg.547 |
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Nathaniel Gorham to Rufus King, Charlestown, 29 December |
pg.549 |
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The Republican Federalist I, Massachusetts Centinel, 29
December |
pg.549 |
|
Thomas a Kempis, Massachusetts Centinel, 29 December |
pg.554 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 29 December |
pg.554 |
|
Our Liberty Tree: A
Federal Song, Massachusetts Centinel, 29 December |
pg.555 |
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Christopher Gore to Rufus King, Boston, 30 December |
pg.555 |
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Christopher Gore to George Thatcher, Boston, 30 December |
pg.557 |
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Nathaniel Gorham to Caleb Strong, Boston, 31 December |
pg.557 |
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Isaac Stearns to Samuel Adams, Billerica, 31 December |
pg.558 |
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"Z,'' American Herald, 31 December |
pg.559 |
|
Israel, American Herald, 31 December |
pg.560 |
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Boston Gazette, 31 December |
pg.561 |
| "C.
O.,'' Boston Gazette, 31 December |
pg.561 |
|
Mercy Warren to Samuel A. Otis, Milton, December |
pg.562 |
|
Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant to Joseph Badger, 1788 |
pg.563 |
|
The Federal Chariot, Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for
1788 |
pg.569 |
|
Edward Bangs to George Thatcher, Worcester, 1 January |
pg.571 |
|
Edward Bowen Diary, Marblehead, 1 January |
pg.572 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 1-2 January |
pg.572 |
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The Printer's Lad: New Year's Verse, Boston, 1 January |
pg.574 |
|
The Editor of the Massachusetts Gazette, Massachusetts Gazette, 1
January |
pg.574 |
|
Agrippa X, Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.576 |
|
Patrick O'Neil, Esquire, Massachusetts Gazette, 1
January |
pg.580 |
|
Kempis O'Flannegan, Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.581 |
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Captain M'Daniel, Massachusetts Gazette, 1 January |
pg.582 |
|
Salem Mercury, 1 January |
pg.583 |
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The Reprinting of Excerpts from The Federalist 24 Salem
Mercury, 1 January |
pg.585 |
|
Salem Mercury, 1 January |
pg.587 |
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Jeremy Belknap to Ebenezer Hazard, Boston, 2 January |
pg.587 |
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Samuel A. Otis to Elbridge Gerry, New York, 2 January |
pg.588 |
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The Republican Federalist II, Massachusetts Centinel, 2
January |
pg.589 |
|
Philo-Musae, Massachusetts Centinel, 2 January |
pg.592 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 2 January |
pg.593 |
|
Mariot, Massachusetts Centinel, 2 January |
pg.594 |
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"A. B.,'' Hampshire Gazette, 2 January |
pg.596 |
|
An Association of Christian Ministers to the Public
Essex Journal, 2 January |
pg.600 |
|
James Madison to Tench Coxe, New York, 3 January |
pg.602 |
|
Honorius, Independent Chronicle, 3 January |
pg.603 |
|
Remarker ad corrigendum, Independent Chronicle, 3
January |
pg.607 |
|
Candidus III, Independent Chronicle, 3 January |
pg.609 |
|
One of the People, Independent Chronicle, 3 January |
pg.610 |
|
Worcester Magazine, 3 January |
pg.610 |
|
Worcester Magazine, 3 January |
pg.610 |
|
John Adams to Thomas Brand-Hollis, Grosvenor Square,
London, 4 January |
pg.611 |
|
Junius, Massachusetts Gazette, 4 January |
pg.612 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 4 January |
pg.614 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 4 January |
pg.615 |
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Kempis O'Flannegan, Massachusetts Gazette, 4 January |
pg.616 |
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Nathaniel Freeman, Jr., to John Quincy Adams, Medford, 5
January |
pg.617 |
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Samuel Osgood to Samuel Adams, New York, 5 January |
pg.618 |
|
Elbridge Gerry Defends His Conduct in the Constitutional
Convention, Massachusetts Centinel, 5 January |
pg.622 |
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Mariot, Massachusetts Centinel, 5 January |
pg.623 |
|
Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 5 January |
pg.624 |
| §
Editors' Note: Massachusetts and the Ratification of the Constitution by
Connecticut, 6-15 January |
pg.624 |
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Rufus King to James Madison, New York, 6 January |
pg.625 |
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Rufus King to Jeremiah Wadsworth, New York, 6 January |
pg.626 |
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Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, New York, 6 January |
pg.626 |
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Thomas L. Winthrop to John Todd, Boston, 6 January |
pg.626 |
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Christopher Gore to Rufus King, Boston, 6 January |
pg.627 |
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Nathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Boston, 6 January |
pg.628 |
|
The Meeting of the Tradesmen of Boston on the
Constitution, 7 January |
pg.629 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 8 January |
pg.631 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 9 January |
pg.633 |
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Samuel Norton to Benjamin Lincoln, Hingham, 7 January |
pg.635 |
|
American Herald, 7 January |
pg.636 |
|
American Herald, 7 January |
pg.639 |
|
New York Journal, 7 January |
pg.642 |
|
Zabdiel Adams to John
Wheelock, Lunenburgh, 8 January |
pg.642 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 8
January |
pg.643 |
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Thomas B. Wait to George Thatcher, Portland, 8 January |
pg.645 |
|
Agrippa XI, Massachusetts Gazette, 8 January |
pg.649 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 8 January |
pg.651 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 8 January |
pg.651 |
|
Salem Mercury, 8 January |
pg.652 |
|
Salem Mercury, 8 January |
pg.652 |
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Richard Henry Lee's Objections to the Constitution Salem
Mercury, 8 January |
pg.653 |
|
Hampshire Chronicle, 8 January |
pg.654 |
|
New Hampshire Spy, 8 January |
pg.654 |
|
New Hampshire Spy, 8 January |
pg.655 |
|
John Quincy Adams Diary, Newburyport, 9 January |
pg.656 |
|
Christopher Gore to George Thatcher, Boston, 9 January |
pg.656 |
|
Christopher Gore to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Boston, 9
January |
pg.657 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 9 January |
pg.658 |
|
Benjamin Lincoln to George Washington, Boston, 9 January |
pg.660 |
|
The Republican Federalist III, Massachusetts Centinel, 9
January |
pg.661 |
|
A Farmer, Massachusetts Centinel, 9 January |
pg.665 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 9 January |
pg.666 |
|
"A. B.,'' Hampshire Gazette, 9 January |
pg.667 |
|
James Madison to Edmund Randolph, New York, 10 January |
pg.672 |
|
Mark Antony, Independent Chronicle, 10 January |
pg.672 |
|
Samuel, Independent Chronicle, 10 January |
pg.678 |
|
Helvidius Priscus II, Independent Chronicle, 10 January |
pg.684 |
|
A Friend to Honesty, Independent Chronicle, 10 January |
pg.687 |
|
Ebenezer Hazard to Jeremy Belknap, New York, 11 January |
pg.691 |
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Benjamin Hoppin to Nicholas Brown, Boston, 11 January |
pg.691 |
|
Samuel P. Savage to George Thatcher, Weston, 11 January,
post 14 January |
pg.692 |
|
Common Sense, Massachusetts Gazette, 11 January |
pg.693 |
|
Agrippa XII, Massachusetts Gazette, 11 January |
pg.694 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 11 January |
pg.695 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 11 January |
pg.696 |
|
Philadelphia
Independent Gazetteer, 11 January |
pg.696 |
|
Samuel Breck to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Boston, 12 January |
pg.697 |
|
William Lambert to Enos Hitchcock, Boston, 12 January |
pg.697 |
|
Nicholas Pike to Jeremy Belknap, Newburyport, 12 January |
pg.698 |
|
The Republican Federalist IV, Massachusetts Centinel, 12 January |
pg.698 |
|
Old Fog, Massachusetts Centinel, 12 January |
pg.703 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 12 January |
pg.704 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 12 January |
pg.704 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 12 January |
pg.704 |
|
Cyrus Griffin to Thomas FitzSimons, New York, 13 January |
pg.705 |
|
Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, New York, 13 January |
pg.706 |
|
Henry Knox to George Washington, New York, 14 January |
pg.706 |
|
Theophilus Parsons to Michael Hodge, Boston, 14 January |
pg.708 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Peter Van Schaack, Pittsfield, 14
January |
pg.709 |
|
American Herald, 14 January |
pg.709 |
|
American Herald, 14 January |
pg.715 |
|
A Farmer, American Herald, 14 January |
pg.715 |
|
Boston Gazette, 14 January |
pg.716 |
|
Nathaniel Barrell to George Thatcher, Boston, 15 January |
pg.717 |
|
Agrippa XII, Massachusetts Gazette, 15 January |
pg.720 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 15 January |
pg.726 |
|
Salem Mercury, 15 January |
pg.728 |
|
Hampshire Chronicle, 15 January |
pg.729 |
|
Tench Coxe to James
Madison, Philadelphia, 16 January |
pg.729 |
|
Nathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Boston, 16 January |
pg.730 |
|
Henry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 16 January |
pg.730 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 16 January |
pg.731 |
|
Remarker ad corrigendum, Massachusetts Centinel, 16
January |
pg.731 |
|
Hampshire Gazette, 16 January |
pg.734 |
|
Cumberland Gazette, 17 January |
pg.734 |
|
Remarker, Independent Chronicle, 17 January |
pg.734 |
|
Worcester Magazine, 17 January |
pg.740 |
|
Theodore Sedgwick to Henry Van Schaack, Boston, 18 January |
pg.740 |
|
Agrippa XII, Massachusetts Gazette, 18 January |
pg.741 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 18 January |
pg.744 |
|
John Avery, Jr., to George Thatcher, Boston, 19 January |
pg.745 |
|
William Pynchon Diary, Salem, 19 January |
pg.746 |
|
Joseph Savage to George Thatcher, Weston, 19 January |
pg.746 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 19 January |
pg.746 |
|
"M,'' Massachusetts Centinel, 19 January |
pg.747 |
|
The Republican Federalist V, Massachusetts Centinel, 19
January |
pg.747 |
|
Nathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Charlestown, 20
January |
pg.752 |
|
John Jackson to Keith Spence, Boston, 20 January |
pg.752 |
|
Henry Knox to Egbert Benson, New York, 20 January |
pg.753 |
|
From James Madison, New York, 20 January |
pg.753 |
|
To Tench Coxe |
pg.753 |
|
To Governor Edmund Randolph |
pg.754 |
|
To George Washington |
pg.754 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Peter Van Schaack, Pittsfield, 20
January |
pg.755 |
|
A Countryman, American Herald, 21 January |
pg.757 |
|
The Alleged Bribery and Corruption of the Delegates |
|
|
To the Massachusetts Convention, 21
January-6 February |
pg.759 |
|
Centinel, Boston Gazette, 21
January |
pg.760 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 22 January |
pg.760 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 23 January |
pg.760 |
|
Samuel P. Savage to George Thatcher, Weston, 24 January |
pg.761 |
|
George Benson to Theodore
Foster, Providence, 25 January |
pg.762 |
|
A Federalist, Massachusetts Centinel, 26 January |
pg.762 |
|
Boston Gazette, 28 January |
pg.763 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 29
January |
pg.764 |
|
Citizen, Massachusetts Centinel, 30 January |
pg.764 |
|
Pennsylvania Herald, 5 February |
pg.764 |
|
Philadelphia Freeman's Journal, 6 February |
pg.765 |
|
§ Editors' Note: The Massachusetts Reprinting of Governor
Edmund Randolph's Objections to the Constitution, 21 January-11 March |
pg.767 |
|
Isaac Stearns to Nathaniel Gorham, Billerica, 22 January |
pg.768 |
|
Agrippa XIII, Massachusetts Gazette, 22 January |
pg.770 |
|
A True Federalist, Massachusetts Gazette, 22 January |
pg.772 |
|
Helvidius Priscus
III, Massachusetts Gazette, 22 January |
pg.773 |
|
Junius, Massachusetts Gazette, 22 January |
pg.776 |
|
John Adams to Cotton Tufts, Grosvenor Square, London, 23
January |
pg.778 |
|
Caleb Bingham to Luther Holley, Boston, 23 January |
pg.779 |
|
Tench Coxe to James Madison, Philadelphia, 23 January |
pg.779 |
|
Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 23 January |
pg.780 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 23 January |
pg.784 |
|
Pat: The Bulls and the Lion, Massachusetts Centinel, 23 January |
pg.784 |
|
Ezra, Massachusetts Centinel, 23 January |
pg.785 |
|
§ Editors' Note: Elbridge Gerry and the Massachusetts
Convention, 23-28 January |
pg.787 |
|
George Washington and the Constitution, 23 January-2
February |
pg.788 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 23 January |
pg.789 |
|
Brutus, Independent Chronicle, 24 January |
pg.790 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 25 January |
pg.791 |
|
Cato, Massachusetts Centinel, 26 January |
pg.791 |
|
An American, American Herald, 28 January |
pg.792 |
|
Junius, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.793 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 2 February |
pg.795 |
|
Matthew Cobb to George Thatcher, 24 January |
pg.796 |
|
Norwich Packet, 24 January |
pg.797 |
|
Nathaniel and Francis Thayer to Champion and Dickason, Boston, 25
January |
pg.797 |
|
Agrippa XIV, Massachusetts
Gazette, 25 January |
pg.797 |
|
Junius, Massachusetts Gazette, 25 January |
pg.799 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 25 January |
pg.802 |
|
The Yeomanry of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Gazette, 25
January |
pg.802 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 26 January |
pg.805 |
|
Hampden, Massachusetts Centinel, 26 January |
pg.806 |
|
Tench Coxe to James Madison, Philadelphia, 27
January |
pg.810 |
|
Charles Tillinghast to Hugh Hughes, New York, 27-28 January |
pg.810 |
|
Massachusetts Clergy
and the State Convention, 28-29 January |
|
|
American Herald, 28 January |
pg.813 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.813 |
|
American Herald, 28 January |
pg.814 |
|
Lucan, American Herald, 28
January |
pg.814 |
|
Ship News, American Herald, 28 January |
pg.815 |
|
§ Editors' Note: The
Massachusetts Reprinting of the Report of New York's Delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, American Herald, 28 January |
pg.817 |
|
§ Editors' Note: Massachusetts Reprintings of
Unrest in Western Pennsylvania, American Herald, 28 January-28 February |
pg.817 |
|
Newspapers and the Post Office, 28 January-21 February |
pg.818 |
|
Boston Gazette, 28 January |
pg.820 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 16
February |
pg.820 |
|
Adams and Nourse to Charles
Thomson, Boston, 21 February |
pg.821 |
|
Agrippa XIV, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.821 |
|
Agrippa XV, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.822 |
|
Cagliostro, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.826 |
|
Amator Patriae, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.827 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.829 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.829 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette,
29 January |
pg.830 |
|
Captain M'Daniel, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.830 |
|
Massachusettensis, Massachusetts Gazette, 29 January |
pg.830 |
|
James Madison to Tench Coxe, New York, 30 January |
pg.833 |
|
The Republican Federalist VI, Massachusetts Centinel, 30
January |
pg.833 |
|
Dwight Foster to Enos Hitchcock, Brookfield, 31 January |
pg.837 |
|
Nicholas Hoffman and Son to Nicholas Low, New York, 31 January |
pg.837 |
|
A Real Federalist, Massachusetts Gazette, 1 February |
pg.837 |
|
An Honest Man, Massachusetts Gazette, 1 February |
pg.839 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 1 February |
pg.840 |
|
Hampden, Massachusetts Centinel, 2 February (extra) |
pg.841 |
|
The Republican Federalist VI, Massachusetts Centinel, 2
February (extra) |
pg.843 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 2 February |
pg.847 |
|
§ Editors' Note: A Spectator: A Short History of a
Recent Freak Massachusetts Centinel, 2 February |
pg.848 |
|
Ebenezer Hazard to Jeremy Belknap, New York, 3 February |
pg.848 |
|
Enos Hitchcock to Dwight Foster, Providence, 4 February |
pg.849 |
|
William Robinson, Jr., to John Langdon, Philadelphia, 4 February |
pg.849 |
|
A Bostonian, American
Herald, 4 February |
pg.850 |
|
"O,'' American Herald, 4 February |
pg.851 |
|
§ Editors' Note: The Massachusetts Reprinting of Luther
Martin's Genuine Information, American Herald, 4 February-8 May |
pg.856 |
|
Ship News, Boston Gazette, 4 February |
pg.857 |
|
Helvidius Priscus IV, Massachusetts Gazette, 5 February |
pg.858 |
|
§ Editors' Note: False Reports of North Carolina's
Ratification of the Constitution, 5-6 February |
pg.860 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 5 February |
pg.861 |
|
Junius, Massachusetts
Gazette, 5 February |
pg.861 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 5 February |
pg.862 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 5 February |
pg.862 |
|
Agrippa XVI, Massachusetts Gazette, 5 February |
pg.863 |
|
William Frost to George Thatcher, York, 6 February |
pg.869 |
|
The Republican Federalist VII, Massachusetts Centinel, 6
February |
pg.869 |
|
Essex Journal, 6 February |
pg.871 |
|
Adelos, Hampshire Gazette, 6 February |
pg.871 |
|
Hampshire Chronicle, 6 February |
pg.873 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 7 February |
pg.873 |
|
Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 7 February |
pg.874 |
|
Lewis R. Morris to Samuel Blachley Webb, Springfield,
Vt., 7 February |
pg.875 |
|
Independent Chronicle, 7 February |
pg.876 |
|
A Watchman, Worcester Magazine, 7 February |
pg.879 |
|
Portius, Massachusetts Gazette, 8 February |
pg.882 |
|
New York Daily Advertiser, 8 February |
pg.883 |
|
Pennsylvania Herald, 9 February |
pg.884 |
|
Abigail Adams Smith to John Quincy Adams, London, 10
February |
pg.885 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Peter Van Schaack, Pittsfield, 12
February |
pg.886 |
|
Salem Mercury, 12 February |
pg.887 |
|
IV. The Election of Convention Delegates 19 November
1787-7 January 1788 |
|
Introduction |
pg.888 |
|
Dates of Election for Massachusetts Convention Delegates |
pg.893 |
|
Acton and Carlisle, Middlesex County, 10 December |
pg.896 |
|
Adams, Berkshire County, 24 December |
pg.896 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore
Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 14 December |
pg.896 |
|
Amherst, Hampshire County, 26 November |
pg.897 |
|
Convention Debates, 6 February 1788 |
pg.897 |
|
Andover, Essex County, 3 December |
pg.897 |
|
Ashburnham, Worcester County, 3 December |
pg.898 |
|
Ashfield, Hampshire County, 25 December |
pg.898 |
|
Attleborough, Bristol County, 26 November |
pg.898 |
|
Barnstable, Barnstable County, 19 November |
pg.899 |
|
Gideon Hawley to Lieutenant Governor Thomas Cushing, 4 January |
pg.899 |
|
Becket, Berkshire County, 3 December |
pg.900 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 4 December |
pg.900 |
|
Belchertown, Hampshire County, 3 December |
pg.900 |
|
Preliminary Instructions, 17 December |
pg.901 |
|
Final Instructions, 17 December |
pg.902 |
|
Bellingham, Suffolk County, 10 December |
pg.903 |
|
Bernardston and Leyden, Hampshire County, 26 November |
pg.904 |
|
Town Meeting and Instructions, 26 November |
pg.904 |
|
Berwick, York County, 18 December |
pg.905 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 12 December |
pg.905 |
|
Beverly, Essex County, 17 December |
pg.906 |
|
Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 8 January |
pg.906 |
|
Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 9 January |
pg.906 |
|
Pennsylvania Gazette, 9 January |
pg.906 |
|
Biddeford, York County |
pg.906 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 12-13
December |
pg.907 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George
Thatcher, Biddeford, 1 January |
pg.908 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 9 January |
pg.908 |
|
Boston, Suffolk County, 7 December |
pg.909 |
|
Nauticus, Massachusetts Centinel, 7 November |
pg.911 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 16
November, An Elector |
pg.912 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 20 November |
pg.912 |
|
An Elector, Massachusetts Gazette, 20 November |
pg.913 |
|
American Herald, 26 November |
pg.914 |
|
An Elector, Massachusetts Centinel, 28 November |
pg.914 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 28 November |
pg.916 |
|
Candor,
Massachusetts Centinel, 28 November |
pg.916 |
|
Independent Chronicle, 30
November |
pg.917 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 1 December |
pg.917 |
|
A Mechanick, Massachusetts Centinel, 1 December |
pg.918 |
|
Thomas a Kempis, Massachusetts
Centinel, 1 December |
pg.919 |
|
American Herald, 3 December |
pg.919 |
|
Candidus, Boston Gazette, 3 December |
pg.920 |
|
"C,'' Massachusetts Gazette, 4
December |
pg.922 |
|
An Elector, Massachusetts Gazette, 4 December |
pg.922 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 4 December |
pg.923 |
|
Many of Your Readers,
Massachusetts Gazette, 4 December |
pg.924 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 4 December |
pg.924 |
|
A Bostonian, Massachusetts Gazette, 4 December |
pg.924 |
|
Mechanicks of the North-End,
Massachusetts Centinel, 5 December |
pg.925 |
|
Fair Play, Massachusetts Centinel, 5 December |
pg.925 |
|
Civis, Independent Chronicle, 6 December |
pg.926 |
|
Mechanicks of the North-End, Independent Chronicle, 6
December |
pg.927 |
|
Independent Chronicle, 6
December |
pg.928 |
|
Weather on Election Day, Boston, 7 December |
pg.928 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 7 December |
pg.929 |
|
Concord, Massachusetts Gazette, 7 December |
pg.930 |
|
A Qualified
Voter, Massachusetts Gazette, 7 December |
pg.930 |
|
Mechanicks of the North-End,
Massachusetts Gazette, 7 December |
pg.931 |
|
Town Meeting, 7 December |
pg.931 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 8 December |
pg.932 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 8 December |
pg.933 |
|
Christopher Gore to Rufus King, Boston, 9 December |
pg.934 |
|
"L,'' Massachusetts Gazette, 11 December |
pg.935 |
|
Nathaniel Gorham to Rufus King,
Charlestown, 12 December |
pg.936 |
|
A Federalist, Boston Gazette, 17 December |
pg.936 |
|
Christopher Gore to Rufus King,
Boston, 23 December |
pg.938 |
|
Many Citizens, Massachusetts Centinel, 29 December |
pg.938 |
|
Boxford, Essex County, 6 December |
pg.938 |
|
Braintree, Suffolk County, 3 December |
pg.940 |
|
Bristol, Lincoln County, 17 December |
pg.940 |
|
Brookfield, Worcester County, 17 December |
pg.941 |
|
Dwight Foster: Minutes of an Address to the Town, 17
December |
pg.941 |
|
Pelatiah Hitchcock to Enos Hitchcock, Brookfield, 30
December |
pg.943 |
|
Brunswick, Cumberland
County, 18 December |
pg.944 |
|
Cambridge, Middlesex County, 17 December |
pg.944 |
|
Selectmen Meeting, 3 December |
pg.944 |
|
Selectmen Meeting, 10 December |
pg.944 |
|
Nathaniel Gorham to Rufus King, Charlestown, 12 December |
pg.944 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 14
December |
pg.945 |
|
Nathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Charlestown, 16 December |
pg.945 |
|
A Federalist, Massachusetts Centinel, 19 December |
pg.945 |
|
Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 5 January |
pg.945 |
|
Charlestown, Middlesex County, 3 December |
pg.946 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 7 December |
pg.946 |
|
Charlton, Worcester County, 10 December |
pg.946 |
|
Chatham, Barnstable County, 19 December |
pg.947 |
|
Chelsea, Suffolk County, 3 December |
pg.947 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 7 December |
pg.947 |
|
Chesterfield, Hampshire County, 27 November |
pg.948 |
|
Cohasset, Suffolk County, 3 December |
pg.948 |
|
Colrain, Hampshire County, 4 December |
pg.948 |
|
Cummington and Plainfield, Hampshire County, 3 December |
pg.949 |
|
Dalton, Berkshire County, 27 December |
pg.949 |
|
Danvers, Essex County, 11 December |
pg.950 |
|
Samuel Holten to David Prince, Danvers, 29 December |
pg.951 |
|
Dunstable, Middlesex County, 3 December |
pg.952 |
|
Nathaniel Gorham to Henry Knox, Boston, 6 January |
pg.952 |
|
Easton, Bristol County, 14 December |
pg.952 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 5 December |
pg.952 |
|
Falmouth, Cumberland County |
pg.952 |
|
Cumberland Gazette, 30 November |
pg.952 |
|
Cumberland Gazette, 6 December |
pg.952 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 19 December |
pg.952 |
|
Fitchburgh, Worcester County, 20 December |
pg.953 |
|
Foxborough, Suffolk County, 30 November |
pg.954 |
|
Fryeburg, York County, 6 December |
pg.954 |
|
Gardner, Worcester County, 27 December |
pg.955 |
|
Gorham, Cumberland County, 3 December |
pg.955 |
|
Cumberland Gazette, 3 January |
pg.956 |
|
Granby, Hampshire County, 3 December |
pg.956 |
|
Granville, Hampshire County, 3 December |
pg.957 |
|
Christopher Gore to Rufus King, Boston, 30 December |
pg.957 |
|
Great Barrington, Berkshire
County, 3 December |
pg.957 |
|
Town Meeting, 26 November |
pg.959 |
|
Draft Instructions, 26 November |
pg.959 |
|
Theodore Sedgwick to Henry Van Schaack, Stockbridge, 28 November |
pg.960 |
|
Town Meeting, 3 December |
pg.960 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore
Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 4 December |
pg.961 |
|
Theodore Sedgwick to Henry Van Schaack, Stockbridge, 5 December |
pg.961 |
|
Town Clerk's Account of Election of a Delegate to the Massachusetts
Convention, December |
pg.961 |
|
Deposition of Fraudulent
Voting, 3 January |
pg.962 |
|
Deposition of Fraudulent Voting, 4 January |
pg.962 |
|
Massachusetts Convention Journal, 11 January |
pg.965 |
|
Massachusetts Convention Journal, 12 January |
pg.965 |
|
Hallowell, Lincoln County, 27 November |
pg.966 |
|
Town Meeting, 27 November |
pg.966 |
|
Cumberland Gazette, 20 December |
pg.966 |
|
Silas Lee to George Thatcher, Biddeford, 23 January |
pg.966 |
|
Harpswell, Cumberland County, 10 December |
pg.966 |
|
Harvard, Worcester County, 17 December |
pg.967 |
|
Instructions, 17 December |
pg.968 |
|
Holden, Worcester County, 26 November |
pg.969 |
|
Holliston, Middlesex County, 24 December |
pg.970 |
|
Hopkinton,
Middlesex County, 10 December |
pg.970 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 24 May
1788 |
pg.971 |
|
Ipswich, Essex County, 3 December |
pg.971 |
|
Town Meeting, 20 November (morning) |
pg.971 |
|
Town Meeting, 20 November (afternoon) |
pg.972 |
|
Samuel Adams Diary, Ipswich, 20 November |
pg.972 |
|
Town Meeting, 3 December (morning) |
pg.972 |
|
Town Meeting, 3 December (afternoon) |
pg.973 |
|
Samuel Adams Diary, Ipswich, 3
December |
pg.973 |
|
Warrant Calling Town Meeting, 19 December |
pg.973 |
|
Town Meeting, 25 December |
pg.974 |
|
Samuel Adams Diary, Ipswich, 25 December |
pg.974 |
|
Kittery, York County, 17 December |
pg.975 |
|
Lancaster, Worcester County, 20 November |
pg.975 |
|
George Benson to Nicholas
Brown, Boston, 3 February 1788 |
pg.976 |
|
Lee, Berkshire County, 30 November |
pg.976 |
|
Lenox, Berkshire County, 17 December |
pg.976 |
|
Leverett, Hampshire County, 10 December |
pg.977 |
|
Littleton,
Middlesex County, 17 December |
pg.977 |
|
Loudon, Berkshire County, 24 December |
pg.978 |
|
Ludlow, Hampshire County, 11 December |
pg.978 |
|
Lunenburgh, Worcester County, 3 December |
pg.978 |
|
Lynn and Lynnfield, Essex County, 10 December |
pg.979 |
|
Machias,
Lincoln County, 21 November |
pg.979 |
|
Mansfield, Bristol County, 3 December |
pg.980 |
|
Medfield, Suffolk County, 25 December |
pg.980 |
|
Medford, Middlesex
County, 22 November |
pg.981 |
|
Massachusetts Gazette, 23 November |
pg.981 |
|
Medway, Suffolk County, 6 December |
pg.981 |
|
Methuen, Essex County, 20 December |
pg.983 |
|
Middleborough, Plymouth County, 17 December |
pg.983 |
|
Isaac Backus Diary, January |
pg.983 |
|
Milford, Worcester County, 17 December |
pg.984 |
|
Milton, Suffolk County, 3 December |
pg.984 |
|
Samuel A. Otis to Caleb Davis, New York, 14 December |
pg.985 |
|
Newbury, Essex County, 4 December |
pg.985 |
|
Essex Journal, 2 January |
pg.985 |
|
Essex Journal, 9 January |
pg.985 |
|
Newburyport, Essex County, 20 November |
pg.990 |
|
John Quincy
Adams Diary, Newburyport, 20 November |
pg.990 |
|
Essex Journal, 21 November |
pg.991 |
|
Massachusetts Centinel, 24 November |
pg.991 |
|
John Quincy Adams Diary, Newburyport, 25 November |
pg.991 |
|
Henry Jackson to Henry Knox, Boston, 25
November |
pg.991 |
|
American Herald, 26 November |
pg.992 |
|
Essex Journal, 28 November |
pg.992 |
|
Independent Chronicle, 6
December |
pg.993 |
|
George R. Minot Journal, January-February 1788 |
pg.993 |
|
Newcastle, Lincoln County, 27 December |
pg.994 |
|
New Gloucester, Cumberland County, 10 December |
pg.994 |
|
Jeremiah Hill to George
Thatcher, Biddeford, 1 January |
pg.995 |
|
New Marlborough, Berkshire County, 10 December |
pg.995 |
|
Northampton and Easthampton, Hampshire County, 22
November |
pg.995 |
|
Instructions, Hampshire Gazette, 28 November |
pg.997 |
|
New York Journal, 6 December |
pg.998 |
|
Northborough, Worcester County, 24 December |
pg.998 |
|
North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, 4 December |
pg.999 |
|
Oakham, Worcester County, 3 December |
pg.1000 |
|
Instructions, 10 December |
pg.1000 |
|
Palmer, Hampshire County, 6 December |
pg.1001 |
|
Partridgefield, Berkshire County, 10 December |
pg.1002 |
|
Paxton, Worcester County, 17 December |
pg.1002 |
|
Instructions, 2 January |
pg.1003 |
|
Pelham, Hampshire County, 26 November |
pg.1003 |
|
Pittsfield, Berkshire County, 19 December |
pg.1004 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 4 December |
pg.1004 |
|
Theodore Sedgwick to Henry Van Schaack, Stockbridge, 5 December |
pg.1004 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to
Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 9 December |
pg.1004 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 14
December |
pg.1005 |
|
Town Meeting, 19 December |
pg.1006 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Oliver
Wendell, Pittsfield, 2 January |
pg.1006 |
|
Portland, Cumberland County, 19 November and 31 December |
pg.1007 |
|
Cumberland Gazette, 15 November |
pg.1008 |
|
Town Meeting, 19 November |
pg.1008 |
|
Town Meeting, 3 December |
pg.1008 |
|
Oriental Junius, Cumberland
Gazette, 13 December |
pg.1009 |
|
A Freeholder, Cumberland Gazette, 20 December |
pg.1009 |
|
Oriental Junius, Cumberland Gazette, 27 December |
pg.1010 |
|
Warrant Calling Town Meeting, 29 December |
pg.1011 |
|
Town Meeting, 31 December |
pg.1012 |
|
Pownalborough, Lincoln County, 11 December |
pg.1012 |
|
Princeton, Worcester County, 27 November |
pg.1012 |
|
Reading, Middlesex County, 17 December |
pg.1013 |
|
Rehoboth, Bristol County, 26 November |
pg.1013 |
|
Richmond, Berkshire County, 17 December |
pg.1013 |
|
Town Meeting, 7 December |
pg.1013 |
|
Henry Van Schaack to Theodore
Sedgwick, Pittsfield, 14 December |
pg.1014 |
|
Town Meeting, 17 December |
pg.1014 |
|
Town Meeting, 24 December |
pg.1014 |
|
Roxbury, Suffolk County, 17 December |
pg.1014 |
|
Roxbury, American Herald, 10 December |
