Abigail Emmery's 1710 petition for divorce (SC1 45X, Mass. Archives Collection v.9: p.162); and petition of Josiah 
  Butts, Berkshire County, Mass., 1851, for adoption of orphan child and name change (SC1 Acts 1851 ch. 249).
  Courtesy of the Massachusetts Archives, Boston.

  Superior Court of Judicature, Plymouth, Mass, 1718. Courtesy of New England Historic Genealogical Society,
  Boston.

  Raynham Iron Works. Courtesy of the Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, Mass.

  Felling. Courtesy of Samuel F. Manning, from his book, New England Masts and the King’s Broad Arrow. Gardiner,
  Me.: Tilbury House Publishers, 2000.