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A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, title page

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A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, title page
Collection

A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, in convention, begun and held at Cambridge on the first of September, 1779, and continued by adjournments to the second of March, 1780, to be submitted to the revision of their constituents, in order to the compleating of the same, in conformity to their amendments, at a session to be held for that purpose, on the first Wednesday in June next ensuing.

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1780
Place: Boston
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin Edes & sons, in State street
Library locations
Rare Book Division
Shelf locator: *KD 1780 (Massachusetts. Constitution. Constitution or frame of government)
Topics
Constitutions -- United States -- States
Genres
Title pages
Notes
Ownership: P173371. Copy 1.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14543636
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c0e8e890-c605-012f-1cd2-58d385a7bc34
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  • 1780: Issued
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1780. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8b6e7dc7-7e5d-2dd1-e040-e00a180621ea

Chicago/Turabian Format

Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. "A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8b6e7dc7-7e5d-2dd1-e040-e00a180621ea

APA Format

Rare Book Division, The New York Public Library. (1780). A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8b6e7dc7-7e5d-2dd1-e040-e00a180621ea

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A constitution or frame of government, agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay