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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.
