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 ==Online Records==
 ''Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or county level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records.''
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1622-1788'''- Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period]-index and images. ''This collection includes agricultural, dispositions, ecclesiastical, estates, foreign affairs, Hutchinson's correspondence, Indian affairs, maritime, military, and other records.''
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/341084?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1628-1777'''- Colony records]- images only.
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/300720?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1718-1772'''- Court records and account books]- images only.
+'''Massachusetts Governor and Council'''<br>
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/339255?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1760-1786'''- Divorce records]-images only.
+*{{RecordSearch|2548057|'''1767-1833'''- Muster rolls (index file cards) of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts}}-index and images.
+*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1471369?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''1603-1779'''- French and Indian War muster roll index cards]- images only.
 ==History==
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 ==Resources==
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library 1622-1788, Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period]. Digitized but not indexed. This collection includes agricultural, dispositions, ecclesiastical, estates, foreign affairs, Hutchinson's correspondence, Indian affairs, maritime, military, and other records.
 ===Court Records===
-Under the Charter of 1629, all official meeting notes were listed as "courts."<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><br>
-'''General Court (1620-1684, 1692-1825)'''.
-:*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/341084?availability=Family%20History%20Library 1628-1777]. Film 0954385. Digitized but not indexed.<Br>
-'''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).
-'''Vice-Admiralty Court (1714-1772, 1692-1775)'''<br>
-:*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/300720?availability=Family%20History%20Library 1718-1772, Court records and account books]. Film 902790. Digitized but not indexed.
-'''Massachusetts Governor and Council'''<br>
-:*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/339255?availability=Family%20History%20Library 1760-1786, Divorce Records]. Film 0946895, item 3. Digitized but not indexed.
 ===Military Records===
-*{{RecordSearch|2548057|1767-1833, Muster rolls (index file cards) of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts}}. Digitized and indexed.
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1471369?availability=Family%20History%20Library 1603-1779, French and Indian War muster roll index cards]. Digitized but not indexed.
 *''Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers, 1702-1722: Queen Anne's War to Dummer's War'' by Mary E. Donahue. (Boston: Society of Colonial Wars, 1980).
 *''Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers, 1723-1743: Dummer's War to the War Jenkins' Ear'' by Myron O. Stachiw. (Boston: Society of Colonial Wars, 1979).