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II The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay
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In the Significance of the "Frontier in American History," I took for my text the following announcement of the Superintendent1 of the Census2 of 1890:
Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated3 bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, the westward4 movement, etc., it cannot therefore any longer have a place in the census reports.
Two centuries prior to this announcement, in 1690, a committee of the General Court of Massachusetts recommended the Court to order what shall be the frontier and to maintain a committee to settle garrisons7 on the frontier with forty soldiers to each frontier town as a main guard.[39:2] In the two hundred years between this official attempt to locate the Massachusetts frontier line, and the official announcement of the ending of the national frontier line, westward expansion was the most important single process in American history.
The designation "frontier town" was not, however, a new one. As early as 1645 inhabitants of Concord8, Sudbury, and [40]Dedham, "being inland townes & but thinly peopled," were forbidden to remove without authority;[40:1] in 1669, certain towns had been the subject of legislation as "frontier towns;"[40:2] and in the period of King Philip's War there were various enactments9 regarding frontier towns.[40:3] In the session of 1675-6 it had been proposed to build a fence of stockades10 or stone eight feet high from the Charles "where it is navigable" to the Concord at Billerica and thence to the Merrimac and down the river to the Bay, "by which meanes that whole
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