found: Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, begun and held 26th day of May ... 1779, and thence continued ... to ... 9th day of Mar. following, [1780]
found: Lippincott(Maine; in 1652 Maine colonies came under jurisdiction of Massachusetts; confirmed by royal charter, 1691; separated from Massachusetts in 1819; admitted to the Union the following year as part of the Missouri Compromise)
found: NUCMC data from Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center for Authorization to administer oaths, 1729(Province of Massachusetts Bay)
found: NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for Tax assessments for Freeport and Jonesboro, Me., 1790 and 1810(tax assessments ... by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
found: Wikipedia WWW, Feb. 13, 2008(the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States)
found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(adm1; 42°21ʹ56ʺN 071°06ʹ30ʺW)
found: Wikipedia, 26 Jan. 2011:Dominion of New England (1686-1689; initially included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Province of New Hampshire, Province of Maine, Narragansett Country or King's Province; later included Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, East Jersy, West Jersey)
found: Wikipedia, May 10, 2011(Massachusetts; Commonwealth of Massachusetts) Azerbaijani page (Massaçusets [in rom.]) Belarusian page (Штат Масачусетс = Shtat Masachusets; Масачусетс = Masachusets) Bulgarian page (Масачузетс = Masachuzets) Welsh page (Cymanwlad Massachusetts) Navajo page (Méésíchóoshish Hahoodzo) Estonian page (Massachusettsi osariik) Greek page (Μασαχουσετη = Masachousetē; Κοινοπολιτεια της Μασαχουσετης = Koinopoliteia tēs Masachousetēs) Spanish page (Mancomunidad de Massachusetts) Esperanto page (Masaĉuseco) Hakka page (Mà-sat-tsû-set) Hawaiian page (Makakukeka) Igbo page (Másáchusẹts) Indonesian page (Persemakmuran Massachusetts) Inuktitut page (maasaasuusiits [in rom.]) Hebrew page (מסצ'וסטס = Masatsʼuseṭs; קהיליית מסצ'וסטס = Ḳehiliyat Masatsʼuseṭs) Haitian page (Masachosèt) Latin page (Massachusetta; Massachuseta; Massaciusseta; Respublica Massachusettensis; Respublica Massachusettensium) Latvian page (Masačūsetsa) Lithuanian page (Masačusetsas) Macedonian page (Масачусетс = Masačusets) Mongolian page (Массачусеттс = Massachusetts; Massachusettsiĭn Khamtyn Nȯkhȯrlȯl) Nahuatl page (Tlahtohcāyōtl Massachusetts)
found: Wikipedia, May 10, 2011Japanese page (マサチューセッツ州 = Masachūsettsu-shū) Russian page (Массачусетс = Massachusets) Serbian page (Масачусетс = Masačusets; Комонвелт Масачусетса = Komonvelt Masačusetsa) Tagalog page (Masatsusets; Komonwelt ng Masatsusets; Estado ng Masatsusets) Turkish page (Massachusetts Eyaleti) Ukrainian page (Массачусетс = Massachusets; Співдружність Массачусетса = Spivdruz︠h︡nistʹ Massachusetsa) Vietnamese page (Khối thịnh vượng chung Massachusetts) Yiddish page (מאסאטשוסעטס = Masaṭshuseṭs; קאמאנוועלט פון מאַסאַטשוסעסט = Ḳomonṿelṭ fun Masaṭshuseṭs) Samogitian page (Masačusetsos)
found: English Wikipedia website, viewed July 29, 2015(On February 6, 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution)
found: List of U.S. state abbreviations, via Wikipedia, September 25, 2015(Massachusetts: ISO: US-MA, ANSI: MA, USPS: MA, USCG: MS, Old GPO: Mass., AP: Mass.)
