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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Draft manuscript minutes of the Massachusetts Council. 10 non-consecutive pages (12 x 8 inches) on 3 sheets; substantial sections excised, worn away, or illegible due to water damage. Boston, 10 April to 25 June 1706
Noteworthy business transacted by the colony's ruling body includes: Dispute over the location of the Lancaster meeting house (12 April) A report that "there has been nothing in the treasury for several weekes past to carry on the affairs of the governm't" (24 June) An indictment against John Borland for "the aid and comfort of the sd French and Indians" (24 June) A request from "Major Wm Whiting praying payment of forty pounds advanced by him, as he saith, as a reward to a sco[ut] sent to Cowasset in the year 1704 that kil'd seven Indians" (25 June).
