Ford, Worthington Chauncey [editor]. Journals of the House of Representatives of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, 1715. Boston: Privately Printed, 1902. [10266]
Limited Edition. No. 14 of 250 copies printed.
Cloth spine with plain gray boards, printed paper title labels to spine & front, 12 7/8 x 8 inches. Front end paper hinge torn, rest fine. Frontispiece is a facsimile plate of a 1713 broadside. xviii., 104 clean pp., some foxing to the rear end papers. Includes an Index. Good. Hardcover.
This is a copy of the first printed Journal of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts-Bay colony.
Ford's Introduction says that the House of Representatives and the Governor were often at odds, and the House deemed it expedient to have their Journals published both as a means of swaying public opinion and as a defense against misrepresentations.
This book allows one to follow the proceedings of the legislature in 1715 and to gain an understanding of what was happening in the Province in that year.
An interesting window into post-Puritan New England.
