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Updated: June 14, 2025

Since some of the towns were organized before the colonial legislatures began to pass comprehensive laws, the towns continued, by permission of the colonial governments, to exercise extended powers. The proceedings of a Boston town meeting in 1731 are thus reported: "After Prayer by the Revt. mr. John Webb, "Habijah Savage Esqr. was chose to be Moderator for this meeting

Albert Bushnell Hart - Formation of the Union, 1750-1829