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^{page 28 note 1} Gage, 's History of Rowley, 13.Google Scholar

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^{page 29 note 1} Goodman was used of common people, Mister was reserved for those of superior position.

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^{page 40 note 1} Both inventories are from Coffin, 's Newbury, 183Google Scholar, but the arithmetic or the printing of the first is as faulty as its morality.

^{page 41 note 1} Her husband had died eight months before.

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^{page 44 note 1} Sewall Papers, i., 112Google Scholar, bound for a man who tried to open a dancing school; 120, sent to prison for contempt of government; 151, bound over for “Friday night Revel.”

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^{page 47 note 1} Address on Samuel Sewall.

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^{page 49 note 1} April 1, 1708.

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