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'''Court of Assistants (1630-1686, 1689-1692)''' This was the appellate court for county and inferior courts. It also was the jurisdiction for capital crimes and divorces. For a short time in the 1680s the Court of Assistants  was under the Governor and Council appointed by the Crown.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 243. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
'''Court of Assistants (1630-1686, 1689-1692)''' This was the appellate court for county and inferior courts. It also was the jurisdiction for capital crimes and divorces. For a short time in the 1680s the Court of Assistants  was under the Governor and Council appointed by the Crown.<ref>Christina K. Schaefer, ''Genealogical encyclopedia of the colonial Americas : a complete digest of the records of all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'' (Baltimore, Maryland : Genealogical Publishing Company, c1998), 243. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39622039 WorldCat (Other Libraries)]; {{FHL|822639|item|disp=FHL book 929.11812 D26 1998}}</ref>
:*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/267953?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''Records of the court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1692''']. 3 Vols. (Boston: County of Suffolk, 1901-1928, film 046679).
:*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/267953?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''Records of the court of Assistants of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, 1630-1692''']. 3 Vols. (Boston: County of Suffolk, 1901-1928, film 046679).
'''County Courts (1636-1392) and Quarter Courts (1692-1827).''' These courts handled probate, orphan dockets, allegiance oaths, and bastardy proceedings. Divorce and capital crimes were not kept at this level.


==Manuscript Collections==
==Manuscript Collections==
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