IN NEW ENGLAND BY JOSIAH HENRY BENTON, LL.D. AUTHOR OF "EARLY CENSUS MAKING IN MASSACHUSETTS"; "STORY OF THE OLD BOSTON TOWN HOUSE"; "THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: ITS ORIGIN AND GROWTH" 66 'SAMUEL SLADE BENTON: HIS ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS," ETC. "A book in shape but, really, pure, crude fact 1656-1817 BOSTON W. B. CLARKE COMPANY TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER 2. Admission of Inhabitants.-Grants of Land by CHAPTER 3. Massachusetts Colony and State Laws.— Plymouth Colony Laws.-Further Illustrations of Town CHAPTER 4. Inhabitancy and Warning Out in Connecticut.- CHAPTER 5. New Hampshire Colony and State Laws.-Action CHAPTER 6. Rhode Island Colony and State Laws as to In- habitancy, Relief of the Poor, Town Settlement, etc.— |