Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1896, Vol. 50
In 1671 he was chosen an assistant, and was annually rechosen till 1677. He was elected to the same office in 1680, and held it till 1686. He was a commissioner for the United Colonies from 1674 to 1676, and from 1680 to 1686. In May, 1674, the General Court appointed him to keep the County Courts in Norfolk, and May, 1676, a similar order was passed to keep the County Courts at Portsmouth or Dover, and also at Wells in York County.
In 1676 Stoughton and Peter Bulkeley, speaker of the House of Deputies, were appointed, in compliance with the requisition of Charles II., agents to represent the colony before the king, to answer various complaints against the Massachusetts government. They left Boston October 31, 1676, and arrived in England Decem ber 20, following. 1 They discharged their duties with ability and discretion, though many of the colonists were not satisfied. He returned to New England July He refused a second appointment to the same agency in 1680.
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