Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Volume 62

    LAW IN COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS

    1630–1800

    A conference held 6 and 7 November 1981 by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Distributed by the University Press of Virginia

    1984

    copyright © 1984 the colonial society of massachusetts

    library of congress catalog card number 84–061534

    Printed from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund

    Frontispiece: An engraving of Justice from Murphy v. Pinchbeck, Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Suffolk, 1805 JAN c. 392. Courtesy, Social Law-Library.

    Title Page: Figure of Justice with Scales. From the Title Page of Ioanne Imberto, Enchiridion Juris Scripti Galliae (Utrecht, 1647). Courtesy, Collection of Daniel R. Coquillette.

    • Volume Editor
    • Daniel R. Coquillette
    • Assistant Editors
    • Robert J. Brink
     
    • Catherine S. Menand
    • Editor of Publications
    • Frederick S. Allis, Jr.

    printed at the anthoensen press, portland, maine

    Dedicated to the Memory of

    John Noble, 1829–1909

    clerk of the supreme judicial court for suffolk county, 1875–1908

    a leading member of the colonial society of massachusetts during its early days

    a pioneer in the conservation and understanding of early court records

    Photograph Courtesy Social Law Library.