1Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
On 25 July 1768 the legally qualified voters of Rowley’s West Parish met to determine how the...
Lowell. Prov. Law, page 29. If any Dispute shall arise, it shall be determined. A Penalty for...
3Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Two leading natural resources of the North Shore, clams and salt-marsh hay, provided the stakes...
Pynchon. Grant of Ipswich or rather Jurisdiction between the Towns from Glocester Town Book....
5Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Redevelopment of Boston’s North End is not a wholly modern phenomenon or problem. In the case...
6New Pleadings: Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, August 1772 (Adams Papers)
And the Said William Crafts, Giles Brewer, Benjamin Richardson and Asa Stodder, come and defend...
S amuel Q uincy . Prov. Law. 1st in the Book. Obsolete. Against common right. Not to be done by...
8Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
In these cases the defendants stood accused of violating province laws forbidding interference...
9Adams’ Minutes of the Wadsworth Trial: Plymouth Inferior Court, Plymouth, April 1766 (Adams Papers)
Paine . Wadsworth, a Commissioner of Duxborough to take Care of the Herring Way. Q. Whether...
10Adams’ Minutes of the Winslow Trial: Barnstable Inferior Court, Barnstable, December 1767 (Adams Papers)
Hovey. 239. Page. Nusances in Rivers. Natural, usual or common Passage. Wm. Robbins. Knows the...
11Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
Colonial Massachusetts is often charged with having supported a religious establishment. As Green...
12Thomas Pierce’s Writ and Declaration: Middlesex Inferior Court, Charlestown, November 1767 (Adams Papers)
WE Command you that you summon Samuel Wright of Wilmington in our said County Yeoman (if he may...
13Adams’ Minutes of the Trial and Notes for His Argument: Middlesex Inferior Court, Charlestown, March 1768 (Adams Papers)
Sewall. Action of slander. Not directly charging Perjury. Things contrary to Truth and contrary...
14Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The Province Charter of 1691 provided that there should be “a liberty of Conscience allowed in...
Prov. Law. 16. 33. 386. Temp orary Laws. About Certificates for Anabaptist Ministers and People,...
16Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
“I was concerned in several Causes in which Negroes sued for their Freedom before the...
17Adams’ Copy of the Declaration, and Report: Essex Superior Court, Salem, November 1766 (Adams Papers)
Jenny Slew of Ipswich in the County of Essex Spinster Plaintiff vs. John Whipple Jnr. of said...
Gridley. Marriage is of the Law of Nations. Justinian extends it, even to the Brutes. The Court...
Strong. Trespass and false Imprisonment. Plea that Plaintiff is Defendants Property—his Negro...
20Writ and Pleadings: Middlesex Inferior Court, Cambridge, May 1768 (Adams Papers)
We Command you that without Delay you forthwith cause to be replevied (if she may be found within...
Caesar v. Taylor. Trespass for detention in slavery. Plea non cul. Besides the usual proof of...
At the Superior Court November the defendant offered to give in Evidence on plea of non Cul his...
Taylor v. Caesar. Trespass for enslaving the defendant. Plea non cul. Evidence offered was a...
Trespass for enslaving Plaintiff; plea non cul. Plaintiff offered evidence of beating imprisoning...
On motion to give property in evidence on non cul. ruled that in this case it must not be, ruled...
Mem. examine civil Law, and Villenage, to see what Rules are to govern these Negro Causes....
Trespass for inslaving the plaintiff. Caesar a molatto man (otherwise called Caesar Hendrick) of...
28Editorial Note (Adams Papers)
The courts of Vice Admiralty in the colonies had been established by the Crown in 1697 primarily...
29Adams’ Notes of Authorities: Court of Vice Admiralty, Boston, 1768 (Adams Papers)
Grotius B. 2, Chap. 8, §. 2. How long Beasts Birds and Fishes, may be said to be no Body’s,...
30Adams’ Minutes of the Arbitration: Boston, October 1769 (Adams Papers)
Silvanus Snow and Amos Knowles. Captains. Have been long acquainted with the Customs of Whaling....