Excerpt from The Financial History of Massachusetts: From the Organization of the Massachusetts Bay Company to the American Revolution The American revolution marks a natural division of the history of Massachusetts into two periods, each with finan cial characteristics distinct from those of the otherz - the period of her dependency upon the British crown, and the period of her membership in the American union. The first of these periods again divides itself into two others, corre sponding to the respective lives of the colonial and provincial charters; while the second, though shaken by no such vio lent political tempests as served to break up the previous history of the commonwealth into epochs, is marked near its middle by the beginning of that great and varied material development which, during the last half century, has com pletely changed the character of the science of finance in all civilized countries. We thus have four well-defined periods of financial history. The present monograph is devoted to the first two of these periods, comprising the larger one of the de pendency of the commonwealth upon the British crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.