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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2018 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), [1] the state had 374 law enforcement agencies employing 19,578 personnel (27,489 personnel, total, including sworn and non-sworn positions), with an average of 284 sworn personnel per 100,000 ...
The MSP was established by Massachusetts state governor John A. Andrew when he signed a law creating the State Constabulary on May 16, 1865. This legislative act to "establish a State Police Force" founded the first statewide enforcement agency in the nation.
Many have done so: as of 2015, only 24 of Alabama's 67 counties still had constables. [4] Alabama constables are peace officers and have full powers of arrest, stop and search within their county, except in certain counties which have had their constables' powers limited by act of the State Legislature (Etowah and Jefferson Counties).
Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1633-1700. Waters (1905). Ipswich, MA: The Ipswich Historical Society. [p. 120-127]. [Accessed in Local History Room, Watertown Free Public Library, Watertown, MA]. History of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. 1637-1888. Oliver Ayer Roberts. Boston. 1897. Volume 1. [pp. 191 ...
John Humphrey (also spelled Humfrey or Humfry, c. 1597 – 1661) was an English Puritan and an early funder of the English colonisation of North America.He was the treasurer of the Dorchester Company, which established an unsuccessful settlement on Massachusetts Bay in the 1620s, and was deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1629 to 1630.
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Major-General Humphrey Atherton (c. 1607 – September 16, 1661), [1] an early settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, held the highest military rank in colonial New England. [2] [3] He first appeared in the records of Dorchester on March 18, 1637 and made freeman May 2, 1638. [3]
The John Humphreys House, also known as Sir John Humphreys House, is a historic house museum located in Swampscott, Massachusetts. Although it was long thought to be associated with John Humphrey , an early deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , it was more likely built about 1700, based on architectural analysis.