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Journal of the Convention for framing a constitution of government for the state of Massachusetts Bay

Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1779-1780) (Dutton and Wentworth, printers to the state, 1832)
An address of the Convention, for framing a new constitution of government

Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1779-1780) (printed by White and Adams, 1780)
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In convention, June 16, 1780 : whereas, upon due examination of the returns made by the several towns and plantations within this state, it appears that more than two-thirds of the inhabitants thereof, who have voted on the same have expressed their approbation of the form of government agreed upon by this Convention ... this convention do hereupon declare the said form to be the Constitution of Government established by and for the inhabitants of the state of Massachusetts-Bay ...

Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1779-1780) (1780)