9 Saloman, “Community and Hierarchy,” 37-42. Michael Hindus found that differences between Massachusetts and South Carolina in the relative frequency of crimes persisted into the 18th century.
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Similar contrasts continued in the 19th century; see Michael S. Hindus, Prison and Plantation: Crime, Justice and Authority in Massachusetts and South Carolina, 1767-1878 (Chapel Hill, 1980), 64-65. Another important study is David H. Flaherty, “Crime and Social Control in Provincial Massachusetts,” HJ 24 (1981), 339-60.
10 Dwight, Travels, I, 141.
11 Edwin Stone, History of Beverly (Boston, 1843), 307.
12 Stowe, Oldtown Folks, 1208.
13 For evidence of a major difference between Massachusetts and Maryland in prosecutions for burglary, see Saloman, “Community and Hierarchy,” 107-31.