101Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Prescott v. Keep, in which Keep, Adams’ client, was the original plaintiff, began with a...
102Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Jonathan Wilkins owned a pasture and apple orchard on Mill Brook in Middleton, near the Great...
103Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
At twenty-four Adams could ask, “But Quere, if Dissonance of Dispositions is a sufficient Reason...
104Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Today we would probably call this action tort for loss of consortium by seduction. In...
105Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
As in England, the Massachusetts justices of the peace, singly and in their joint capacity as the...
106Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Josiah Marshall had lived in Plympton from 1747 until 1753, and had then spent five years at...
107Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In August 1768, William Dix, a pauper, was removed from Boston to Chelsea by virtue of the...
108Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The constable of Roxbury had conveyed John Chaddock (alias Chadwick, Chattuck, or Shattuck), his...
109Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The jurisdiction of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in cases of bastardy originated in...
110Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
This was a proceeding at the Middlesex General Sessions for September 1768, in which Lydia Gage...
111Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Ann Josselyne of Marlborough claimed that John Harrington of the same town was the father of her...