* Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell in 2010

The exact number is not known because Massachusetts Humane Society records were lost in the Great Boston Fire of 1872.

In later years he served as the first president of the Massachusetts Bank in 1784 and was also the first president of the Massachusetts Humane Society ( an organization initially devoted to rescuing survivors from shipwrecks and other water-based disasters ).

" Captain Forbes was a member and an officer of the Massachusetts Humane Society, one of the Boston pilot commissioners, member of the government of the Board of Trade, one of the vestry of King's Chapel, member of the Boston Port Society, and at one time and another a director of various railroad and insurance companies.

Under the Newell Act, the United States Congress appropriated $ 10, 000 to establish unmanned life saving stations along the New Jersey coast south of New York Harbor and to provide " surf boats, rockets, carronades and other necessary apparatus for the better preservation of life and property from ship-wrecks ...." That same year the Massachusetts Humane Society also received funds from the United States Congress for life saving stations on the Massachusetts coastline.

In 1847 the Massachusetts Humane Society established life-saving stations throughout the Elizabeth Islands, supplied with items needed by islanders to assist boats in trouble.

* A sermon delivered before the Humane Society, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

King received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, a Master's degree in theater from New York University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Marywood University.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, ser.

* Hanson, Robert Brand, " Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635 – 1890 ," published by Dedham Historical Society, 1976

* Country Dance Society, Boston Centre runs English and contra dances in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

* The Diaries of John Quincy Adams: A Digital Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society

* 1656 – Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

* Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive at the Massachusetts Historical Society

** Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol.

* June 4, 1810 – The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves is founded in Dedham, Massachusetts.

* June 4 – The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves is founded in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Collection box for Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.

This land is now protected by the Massachusetts Audubon Society in its Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary.

Some Shaker sites have become museums, including Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts ; Enfield Shaker Museum in Enfield, New Hampshire ; the North Family in New Lebanon, New York ( Mount Lebanon Shaker Village ; photos at Mount Lebanon Shaker Society ), Harvard, Massachusetts ( Fruitlands ); and the Pleasant Hill community in Kentucky.

Bergh also prompted the formation, in 1874, of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( MSPCC ).

Over the coming years, other SPCC organizations were formed, such as the Massachusetts organization in 1888, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( MSPCC ).

Leift Lion Gardener his Relation of the Pequot Warres ( Boston: Printing Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 1833 ).

* The Whaling Church run by the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust * Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary run by the Massachusetts Audubon Society

On December 8, 1864 Alger was installed as pastor with the First Unitarian Church and Society of Brewster, Massachusetts.

In a 1996 acoustic study by the Acoustical Society of America, along with Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that the perceived pitch of a note with vibrato " is that of its mean ", or the middle of the fluctuating pitch.

* Skoffie — writer c. 1799 in Massachusetts Historical Society Collection ( First series ), 6: 16.

* Massachusetts Historical Society Massacre Exhibit

: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003

Dutton & Co., The New International Encyclopedia, Dodd, Mead & Company in the possession of the Plainfield Historical Society document that basketball was actually played in Plainfield before it was played in Springfield, Massachusetts.

* Weston Friendly Society of the Performing Arts, Massachusetts ' second oldest community theater company

Others placed in nomination included Senators Warren G. Harding of Ohio, Hiram Johnson of California, and Miles Poindexter of Washington, Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Herbert Hoover, and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.

In 1714, all of the unincorporated territory north of the towns of Coventry and Windham in northeastern Connecticut to the Massachusetts border were placed under the jurisdiction of Hartford County.

Bundy attended the elite Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts and then the Groton School, where he placed first in his class and ran the student newspaper and debating society.

The two sachems took their case to Boston, Massachusetts where they placed their lands under Massachusetts rule.

Ongoing political tensions between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies reached a crisis in 1774 when the British placed the province of Massachusetts under martial law after the Patriots protested taxes they regarded as a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen.

He plays the lead detective on the case of the killer, Philip Markoff, who connected with victims through Craigslist ads placed in Boston, Massachusetts.

On March 1, 1862, in a case between the states that reached the United States Supreme Court, both Fall Rivers were made part of Massachusetts and the state boundary was placed in its current location near State Avenue.

Hooper ’ s father had hoped that Hooper would follow in his footsteps as an Episcopal minister, and at the age of seven placed Hooper in Boston Latin School headed by Mr. John Lovell, a highly distinguished educator in Massachusetts.

Still aboard the ship Arbella, Winthrop admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be a " city upon a hill ", watched by the world --- which became the ideal the New England colonists placed upon their hilly capital city, Boston.

" On March 11, 1805, Congress in Washington obliged the letter, and placed her on the Massachusetts Invalid Pension Roll.

Lt. Col. Seth Reed of Uxbridge, Massachusetts was said to have been instrumental in having E Pluribus Unum placed on US coins

On 20 January 2006, doctors from the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced they had placed pigs in suspended animation with a similar technique.

They differ from Massachusetts and the northern tier of states in being more tightly bound to the published agenda — in Connecticut, the Town Meeting may discuss, but not alter, an article placed before them ; nor may they place new items on the agenda.

In July 1898, W. D. C. Pattison, a suspended member of the LDS Church from Boston, Massachusetts, was arrested and briefly detained after attempting to remove a fence placed around the Temple Lot.

She was cremated ; after her mother's death, her remains were placed in her mother's casket and buried in Bellevue Cemetery in her home town of Lawrence, Massachusetts.

He went to South Carolina to investigate and contest the laws of that state, which allowed the seizure of sailors who were free African Americans ( often who were citizens of Massachusetts ) and placed into bondage, if such sailors disembarked from their ship.

Upon receipt of the letter from Massachusetts Governor Briggs announcing Hoar's appointment, South Carolina Governor James H. Hammond promptly placed it before the South Carolina legislature, which issued several resolves, declaring the right of South Carolina to exclude its borders all persons whose presence might be considered dangerous ; denying that free Negroes were citizens of the United States, and for the Massachusetts commissioner:

Lovecraft placed Innsmouth on the coast of Essex County, Massachusetts, south of Plum Island and north of Cape Ann.

Others placed in nomination included Senators Warren G. Harding of Ohio, Hiram Johnson of California, and Miles Poindexter of Washington, Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Herbert Hoover, and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.

Today a plaque at Harvard University, in the words of Cotton Mather, records that it was in consideration of the salutary effect of Shepard's ministry that the college ultimately came to be placed in " Newtowne ", known today as Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On December 27, 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court agreed unanimously with Romney's repeated assertion that Article 48 of the Massachusetts Constitution explicitly and unambiguously requires that the Massachusetts Legislature take a final vote on any and all voter initiatives placed before them, which includes the marriage amendment.