The general laws and statutes of Plymouth Colony : 1658-1666

Title:: The general laws and statutes of Plymouth Colony : 1658-1666
Creator:: New Plymouth Colony. General Court
Former owner:: Morton, Nathaniel, 1613-1685
Former owner:: Ames, Ellis, 1809-1886
Former owner:: Howard, Daniel, 1749-1833
Former owner:: Howard, John
Binder:: James Forbes & Co.
Date:: [ca. 1667]
Format:: Manuscripts
Genre:: Signed bindings
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Special Collections, Rare Books
Subjects:: Law--Colonies--United States
Law--Massachusetts--17th century
Massachusetts--History--17th century
Massachusetts--Law and legislation--17th century
Barnstable County (Mass.)--History
Plymouth County (Mass.)--History
Bristol County (Mass.)--History
Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: [52] leaves ; 34 cm.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/z316sk199
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
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Restrictions:: Access to physical copy/copies by appointment only. Please contact Boston Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Department for further information.

Language:: English
Notes:: A handwritten transcript of the general laws and statutes of Plymouth Colony signed by and copied out in the hand of Nathaniel Morton, General Secretary of the colony from 1645 to 1685. The final three pages, written in a different hand, are comprised of ledger entries dated between 1695 and 1698.
Title devised by cataloger.
Possibly one of a number of copies of the laws and statutes of Plymouth Colony created for distribution to various towns and villages. This copy may have been created in 1667 for the town of Bridgewater.
According to The Proceedings of The Massachusetts Historical Society for the years 1869-1870, Ellis Ames of Plymouth, Massachusetts, discovered this manuscript ca. 1850 inside a trunk in the home of the late Daniel Howard, of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Notes (object):: Pages inconsistently numbered in an early hand; leaves numbered in modern pencil, with leaf [28] numbered 27.
Prior to conservation in 2018: each individual leaf hinged onto a board and bound into a late 19th-/early 20th-century album covered in red sheepskin by James Forbes & Co. Post conservation: leaves individually foldered and housed together with previous binding.
Identifier:: MS-f-Am-2177_001 - MS-f-Am-2177_106
Call #:: RARE BKS MS f Am. 2177
Barcode:: 39999089662835