But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

On March 19, 2006, the International Herald Tribune reported that Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly planned to sue project contractors and others because of poor work on the project.

Other well-known Coolidges, architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, General Charles Austin Coolidge, and diplomat Archibald Cary Coolidge among them, were descended from branches of the family that had remained in Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts General Court overruled them and named the town after Dedham, Essex in England, where some of the original inhabitants were born.

* Frederick J. Stimson, Ambassador to Argentina ( 1914 – 1921 ), Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts

Reformers were led by Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who favored modification ( but ultimately voted for the defense authorization bill with the gay ban language ), and Barry Goldwater, a former Republican Senator and a retired Major General, who argued on behalf of allowing service by open gays and lesbians.

Gerry was from an early time a vocal opponent of Parliamentary efforts to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, and won election to General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( its legislative assembly ) in May 1772.

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

The Massachusetts General Court elected Adams as a Federalist to the U. S. Senate soon after, and he served from March 4, 1803, until 1808, when he broke with the Federalist Party.

* 1768 – James Otis, Jr. offends the King and Parliament in a speech to the Massachusetts General Court.

Jefferson Davis and Attorney General Caleb Cushing from Massachusetts, along with Douglas, spearheaded the partisan efforts.

The supreme courts of both states objected, including this statement from the Massachusetts General Court:

In 1859, various individuals and Bostonian organizations submitted to the Massachusetts General Court a proposal to use newly opened lands in Back Bay, Boston for a " Conservatory of Art and Science ", but the proposal failed.

MUMPS ( Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System ), or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the healthcare industry.

MUMPS was developed by Neil Pappalardo and colleagues in Dr. Octo Barnett's animal lab at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH ) in Boston during 1966 and 1967.

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

* 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

* 1846 – William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.

Work by Gordon Brownell, Charles Burnham and their associates at the Massachusetts General Hospital beginning in the 1950s contributed significantly to the development of PET technology and included the first demonstration of annihilation radiation for medical imaging.

During King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ), a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth militia under General Josiah Winslow invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett Indian village in the Great Swamp in what is now South Kingstown, Rhode Island, on December 19, 1675.

" Currently, Massachusetts uses the names " Supreme Judicial Court " ( to distinguish itself from the state legislature, which is called the Massachusetts General Court ), while New Hampshire uses the name " Supreme Court ".

Once again Massachusetts intervened in his affairs when the General Court ordered deferral of any church at Exeter.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

While he was still on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and before being named to the U. S. Supreme Court, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. published a short volume called The Common Law, which remains a classic in the field.

The suit was thrown out by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1997, but a lingering discontent with the church's financial matters persists to this day.

The decisions of the Supreme Court in cases such as Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission ( broadly reading the procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act ), Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill ( broadly reading the Endangered Species Act ), and, much more recently, Massachusetts v. EPA ( requiring EPA to reconsider regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act ) have had policy impacts far beyond the facts of the particular case.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lemuel Shaw, on August 4, 1847 ; the couple honeymooned in Canada.

" The term intellectual property can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al.

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

* 2008 – California becomes the second U. S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire originally named their highest courts the " Superior Court of Judicature.

* MHC Reconnaissance Town Survey Report: Blandford Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Chester Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Granville Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Montgomery Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Russell Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Southwick Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Tolland Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Chesterfield " Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Cummington Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Goshen Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Huntington ' Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Middlefield Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Westhampton Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

* MHC Survey Reconnaissance Town Report: Worthington Massachusetts Historical Commission, 1982.

According to the company's 2006 Annual Report, Boston Beer Company was considering a possible new brewery in Freetown, Massachusetts.

Located in the heart of Central Massachusetts on a campus it shares with clinical partner UMass Memorial Health Care, the region ’ s premier health care delivery system and largest employer, UMass Medical consistently ranks among the top ten percent in the U. S. News & World Report ’ s annual ranking of best medical schools.

In 2007, Wellesley High School was ranked 70th best public high school in the U. S. by U. S. News & World Report, and on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test the district regularly scores higher than the state average.

U. S. News & World Report currently ranks the graduate program as tied for 1st with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and University of California, Berkeley.

* Adrianus J. M. Houtsma, Julius L. Goldstein, " Percepetion of Musical Intervals: Evidence for the Central Origin of the Pitch of Complex Tones ", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Technical Report 484, October 1, 1971.

It was dissolved on 31 March 1934 ( Acts 1934, c. 187 ) The company was founded by Theodore Lyman Shaw, a member of a wealthy and prominent family from Wellesley, Massachusetts, whose ancestors included Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw (" Robert Gould Shaw ," 1 ) Theodore Lyman Shaw was involved in a number of business projects, including the Marcus Lucius Quinn School of Music in Dorchester ; he also operated an advertising business ( Harvard University Class of 1905, 25th Anniversary Report, 575 ).

* Auslander, Maurice, et al., " Goals for School Mathematics: The Report of the Cambridge Conference on School Mathematics 1963 "-Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 18, 1963.

* Report by Siemens for the State of Massachusetts concerning manhole cover explosions

" Polarized Neutron Studies on Antiferromagnetic Single Crystals: Technical Report No. 4 ", Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), National Security Agency ( NSA ), Air Force Office of Scientific Research ( AFOSR ), ( Nov. 26, 1958 ).

" Low Temperature and Neutron Physics Studies: Final Progress Report, March 1, 1986 -- May 31, 1987 ", Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), United States Department of Energy, ( July 27, 1989 ).