Massachusetts (Geographic Name)

Non-Latin script references not evaluated.

Includes the old catalog heading: Massachusetts (Colony)

Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, begun and held 26th day of May ... 1779, and thence continued ... to ... 9th day of Mar. following, [1780]

Lippincott (Maine; in 1652 Maine colonies came under jurisdiction of Massachusetts; confirmed by royal charter, 1691; separated from Massachusetts in 1819; admitted to the Union the following year as part of the Missouri Compromise)

NUCMC data from Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center for Authorization to administer oaths, 1729 (Province of Massachusetts Bay)

NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for Tax assessments for Freeport and Jonesboro, Me., 1790 and 1810 (tax assessments ... by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Wikipedia WWW, Feb. 13, 2008 (the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the United States)

GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm1; 42°21ʹ56ʺN 071°06ʹ30ʺW)

Wikipedia, 26 Jan. 2011: Dominion of New England (1686-1689; initially included Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Province of New Hampshire, Province of Maine, Narragansett Country or King's Province; later included Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, East Jersy, West Jersey)

Wikipedia, May 10, 2011 (Massachusetts; Commonwealth of Massachusetts) Azerbaijani page (Massaçusets [in rom.]) Belarusian page (Штат Масачусетс = Shtat Masachusets; Масачусетс = Masachusets) Bulgarian page (Масачузетс = Masachuzets) Welsh page (Cymanwlad Massachusetts) Navajo page (Méésíchóoshish Hahoodzo) Estonian page (Massachusettsi osariik) Greek page (Μασαχουσετη = Masachousetē; Κοινοπολιτεια της Μασαχουσετης = Koinopoliteia tēs Masachousetēs) Spanish page (Mancomunidad de Massachusetts) Esperanto page (Masaĉuseco) Hakka page (Mà-sat-tsû-set) Hawaiian page (Makakukeka) Igbo page (Másáchusẹts) Indonesian page (Persemakmuran Massachusetts) Inuktitut page (maasaasuusiits [in rom.]) Hebrew page (מסצ'וסטס = Masatsʼuseṭs; קהיליית מסצ'וסטס = Ḳehiliyat Masatsʼuseṭs) Haitian page (Masachosèt) Latin page (Massachusetta; Massachuseta; Massaciusseta; Respublica Massachusettensis; Respublica Massachusettensium) Latvian page (Masačūsetsa) Lithuanian page (Masačusetsas) Macedonian page (Масачусетс = Masačusets) Mongolian page (Массачусеттс = Massachusetts; Massachusettsiĭn Khamtyn Nȯkhȯrlȯl) Nahuatl page (Tlahtohcāyōtl Massachusetts)

Wikipedia, May 10, 2011 Japanese page (マサチューセッツ州 = Masachūsettsu-shū) Russian page (Массачусетс = Massachusets) Serbian page (Масачусетс = Masačusets; Комонвелт Масачусетса = Komonvelt Masačusetsa) Tagalog page (Masatsusets; Komonwelt ng Masatsusets; Estado ng Masatsusets) Turkish page (Massachusetts Eyaleti) Ukrainian page (Массачусетс = Massachusets; Співдружність Массачусетса = Spivdruz︠h︡nistʹ Massachusetsa) Vietnamese page (Khối thịnh vượng chung Massachusetts) Yiddish page (מאסאטשוסעטס = Masaṭshuseṭs; קאמאנוועלט פון מאַסאַטשוסעסט = Ḳomonṿelṭ fun Masaṭshuseṭs) Samogitian page (Masačusetsos)

English Wikipedia website, viewed July 29, 2015 (On February 6, 1788, Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution)

List of U.S. state abbreviations, via Wikipedia, September 25, 2015 (Massachusetts: ISO: US-MA, ANSI: MA, USPS: MA, USCG: MS, Old GPO: Mass., AP: Mass.)