Massachusetts

Examples

• Is it not the Bible of the Massachusetts language, translated by Elliot, and printed in New-England about the middle of the last century? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In 1747, {See Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay vol. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Nathan Read of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1791, invented a tubular boiler in which the flues and gases are conducted through tubes passing through the boiler into the smokestack. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Shortly after, the petition of the Massachusetts Assembly was taken up for examination before the privy council. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This was the invention of Eli Whitney, of Massachusetts, and was patented by him March 14, 1794. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thomas Blanchard, born in Massachusetts in 1788, while a boy, was accustomed to astonish his companions by the miniature wind-wheels and water-wheels that he whittled out with his knife. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The dominant northern colony was Massachusetts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• About 1818 Joseph Walker of Hopkinston, Massachusetts invented the wooden peg. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A girl was hung in Massachusetts in 1789 for forcibly taking the hat, shoes, and buckles of another girl she had met in the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But when he was about to graduate, he wrote to his father, a well-known clergyman of Charlestown, Massachusetts, I am now released from college, and am attending to painting. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He was ill, and he wrote from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Thousands of telephones are now in operation in all parts of the country, yet I have not yet received one cent from my invention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The present state of Maine was bought by Massachusetts from its alleged owner for twelve hundred and fifty pounds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our theories assume, and our language is fitted to thinking of government as a frame--Massachusetts, I believe, actually calls her fundamental law the Frame of Government. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No one who watched the textile strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts, in the winter of 1912 can forget the astounding effect it had on the complacency of the public. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Farmer, in Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1859. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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