Colonial justice in western Massachusetts, 1639-1702 ; the Pynchon court record, an original judges' diary of the administration of justice in the Springfield courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony / Edited with a legal and historical introd. by Joseph H. Smith.

"...The Diary is also a colorful record of the mores of that colonial community [Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony]. Witchcraft, juvenile delinquency, bootlegging--they are all there. "Follies and foibles; prejudices and petty quarrels; crimes and misdemeanors; jealousies, hopes, and f...

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Other Authors: Pynchon, William, 1590-1662., Smith, Joseph H. 1913-1981 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1961.
Series:Legal studies of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation
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Call Number: KFM2916.H3 A7 1639
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