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Acts and Laws Passed by the Great and General Court of Assembly of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay in New England. Paper bound booklet, 91 pp. Watertown: Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1776. The bound pamphlet provides various articles and resolutions passed in Massachusetts in 1775 until 1777. beginning on page 15, some acts concern the militia, moving its courts to safer locations, rule of law, and more. Benjamin Edes and his partner John Gill maintained the most radical Boston newspaper leading up to the Revolution. From 1755 ro 1775, they published the Boston Gazette. As tensions with Great Britain increased in Boston, they published political works and broadsides sympathetic to Colonialists. The British Government sued them for libel; nevertheless, the United States appointed them as printers to the House of Representatives in 1762 and 1770 to 1775. Edes was a member of the Sons of Liberty and of the Loyal Nine. He moved his press to Watertown, where is was safer for his family and did not return to Boston until the British evacuated it in 1776. Provenance: Property of N. Flayderman & Co. Condition: Appears to have some missing pages, because it begins on page 15 and has no front cover. The binding is fragile and the first few pages are loose. There is some flaking of the pages and cases of scattered foxing.