By: John Noble, Pub. 1901, reprinted 2025, 588 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-654-3. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement that covered much of central New England, including portions of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut. This settlement was considered a success with approximately 20,000 puritans immigrants. The records of the Court of Assistants are public documents during the period of this Colonial Charter (1629-1692). These records include testimonies, depositions, writs, warrants, bonds and divorce petitions. The Court of Assistants was a predecessor of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and heard criminal cases, divorces and some civil cases and appeals. The records within this volume #1 cover the years 1673-1692.