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## Look at the Suffolk Files "Let us look upon a lawyer," wrote John Adams to William Cushing in 1756. "In the beginning of life we see him fumbling and raking amidst the rubbish of writs, indictments, pleas, ejectments, enfiefed, illatebration and one thousand other lignum vitae words which have neither harmony nor meaning."1 Today, those same dry pleadings and papers which Adams and his legal brethren routinely entered into court have perhaps little harmony, but they have much meaning for every student and scholar of colonial and Revolutionary history. For the biographer in particular, the extant court records collectively known as the "Suffolk Files" cut across all strata of early Massachusetts society mirroring a wealth of names, dates, social relations, and innumerable other forgotten facts and events.2 This important collection of historic court archives discloses material about the lives of the famous as well as the obscure, available from no other source except perhaps personal letters or diaries.3 Located in the Suffolk County Court House in Boston, Massachusetts, the Suffolk Files embrace, with varying degrees of completeness, the entire period from 1629 to 1830. Here are
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- Author
- Robert J. Brink (author)
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)