Note 718 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

The Report of a Constitution or Form of Government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: agreed upon by the Committee—to be laid before the Convention of Delegates, assembled at Cambridge, on the First Day of September, A. D. 1779, and continued by adjournment to the Twenty-eighth Day of October following (Boston, 1779). Cf. also A Constitution or Frame of Government agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the State of Massachusetts Bay, in Convention begun and held at Cambridge on the First of September, 1779, and continued by adjournment to the Second of March, 1780. To be submitted to the Revision of their Constituents &c. (Boston, 1779), and An Address of the Convention for Framing a new Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts Bay, to their Constituents (Boston, 1780). Cf. also Parsons's Life of Theophilus Parsons, p. 46; Brooks Adams's Emancipation of Massachusetts, p. 307.