Colonial justice in western Massachusetts, 1639-1702
Subtitle: the Pynchon court record, an original judges' diary of the administration of justice in the Springfield courts in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
By: Edited with a legal and historical introd. by Joseph H. Smith.
Contributors: Pynchon, William, 1590-1662.; Smith, Joseph Henry, 1913-
Series: Legal studies of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Courts -- Massachusetts -- Hampshire County -- History
Description: "...The Diary is also a colorful record of the mores of that colonial community [Springfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony]. Witchcraft, juvenile delinquency, bootlegging--they are all there. "Follies and foibles; prejudices and petty quarrels; crimes and misdemeanors; jealousies, hopes, and fears--the Diary runs the gamut of human frailties and human passions"--Foreword.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.