- Call Number:
- HIL-MICL FC LPR .A4P8C6M5
- Category:
- United States
- Creator:
- America. Public Records.
- Material Description:
- 23 microfilm textual records (23 titles) ; 35 mm
- Background:
Research Publications has assembled and made available in microfilm the most important published colonial and state records of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maine and Vermont. The series is comprised of sixty-seven titles and spans the years from the earliest available records of each colony until approximately 1800.
- Contents:
The Colonial Records of Massachusetts have been microfilmed on twenty-three reels and contain eighty-two volumes of material.
CR 21. The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1692-1786. 21 vols.
Volume 1, 1692-1714
Volume 2, 1715-1742
Volume 3, 1742-1756
Volume 4, 1757-1768
Volume 5, 1769-1780. There is an Index of Names, General Index, and List of Acts and Resolves arranged by date at the end of each volume. A lengthy Preface is located at the beginning of Volume 1.
Volume 6, 1692-1780. This volume of Private Acts is followed by a name index.
Volume 7, 1692-1702
Volume 8, 1703-1707
Volume 9, 1708-1720
Volume 10, 1720-1726
Volume 11, 1726-1734
Volume 12, 1734-1741
Volume 13, 1741-1746
Volume 14, 1714-1753
Volume 15, 1753-1756
Volume 16, 1757-1760
Volume 17, 1761-1764
Volume 18, 1765-1774
Volume 19, 1775-1776
Volume 20, 1777-1778
Volume 21, 1779-1780
Volumes 7-21 contain a Name Index, General Index, and Index of Laws and Resolves arranged by date at the end of each volume.
CR 22. The Charters and General Laws of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1628-1779, with Appendix. Boston: T.B. Wait, 1814. There is a subject index to the volume.
CR 23. Hutchinson, Thomas ed. A Collection of Original Papers Relative to the History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Boston: Thomas and John Flett, 1769.
CR 24. Journals of the House of Representatives of Masssachusetts, 1715-1761. 38 vols.
Volume 1, 1715-1717
Volume 2, 1718-1720
Volume 3, 1721-1722
Volume 4, 1722-1723
Volume 5, 1723-1724
Volume 6, 1724-1726
Volume 7, 1726-1727
Volume 8, 1727-1729
Volume 9, 1729-1731
Volume 10, 1731-1732
Volume 11, 1732-1734
Volume 12, 1734-1735
Volume 13, 1735-1736
Volume 14, 1736-1737
Volume 15, 1737-1738
Volume 16, 1738-1739
Volume 17, 1739-1740
Volume 18, 1740-1741
Volume 19, 1741-1742
Volume 20, 1742-1744
Volume 21, 1744-1745
Volume 22, 1745-1746
Volume 23, 1746-1747
Volume 24, 1747-1748
Volume 25, 1748-1749
Volume 26, 1749-1750
Volume 27, 1750-1751
Volume 28, 1751-1752
Volume 29, 1752-1753
Volume 30, 1753-1754;
Volume 31, 1754-1755
Volume 32, Part 1 1755
Volume 32, Part 2 1756
Volume 33, 1756
Volume 34, 1757
Volume 35, 1758-1759
Volume 36, 1759-1760
Volume 37, 1760-1761
Volume 38, 1761. There is an introduction and table of contents at the beginning of each volume, and a general (subject/name) index at the end.
CR 25. Records of the Court of Assistants of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1692. 3 vols. There is an introduction at the beginning of each volume and a general index at the end. The third volume contains restored fragments of records from 1642-1673.
CR 26. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England,1620-1692. 12 vols. Court Orders.
Volume 1, 1633-1640
Volume 2, 1641-1651
Volume 3, 1651-1661
Volume 4, 1661-1668
Volume 5, 1668-1678
Volume 6, 1678-1691. There is a general index at the end of each volume Judicial Acts.
Volume 7, 1636-1692, index; Miscellaneous Records.
Volume 8, 1633-1689. At the end of this volume there are several lists: List of Names of Freemen and others; Alphabetical Index of Births, Marriages, Deaths and Burials; Indexes of Towns, Places and Clerks; and an Index to Treasury Accounts etc. Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England.
Volume 9, 1643-1651
Volume 10, 1653-1679. Laws.
Volume 11, 1623-1682; Deeds.
Volume 12, 1620-1651, Book of Indian Records for their Lands. There is introductory material at the beginning of most volumes in this Colonial Records group. Each volume has a general index at the end.
CR 27. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. 5 vols.
Volume 1, 1628-1641
Volume 2, 1642-1649
Volume 3, 1644-1657
Volume 4, Part 1, 1650-1686. Introductory remarks and a table of contents are provided at the beginning of each volume, and a general index and an Index of Freeman are located at the end.
CR 28. Whitmore, William Henry.
A Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony From 1630-1686, in which are included. The Body of Liberties of 1641 and the Records of the Court of Assistants, 1641-1644, Arranged to Accompany the Reprints of the Laws of 1660 and 1672. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1890.
- Originals:
CR21-CR28
- Archival Ref. No.:
CR 21 - CR 28.
- Finding Aids:
A microfilm shelf list which correlates the microfilm reel numbers with the Colonial Record numbers and the volume numbers is available in print and a PDF.
- PDF Finding Aid:
- Public Records Colonial Records of Massachusetts Shelf List.pdf
- Notes:
A Collection of Acts and Laws Passed in the State of Massachusetts Bay, Relative to the American Loyalists and their Property (1785) is found electronically in the database Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
- Related Records:
Published American Colonial Records