The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_General_Court" id="mwKw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts General Court">General Court</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" id="mwLA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a> enacts the first punitive legislation against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Quakers">Religious Society of Friends</a>.<sup about="#mwt33" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_14#cite_note-4" id="mwLg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwLw">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt30" class="citation book cs1" id="mwB04"><a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wHoZAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA235" id="mwB08" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB1A">McCarty's Annual Statistician</i></a>. L.P. McCarty. 1879. p.<span id="mwB1E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>235.</cite><span about="#mwt30" class="Z3988" id="mwB1I" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=McCarty%27s+Annual+Statistician&amp;rft.pages=235&amp;rft.pub=L.P.+McCarty&amp;rft.date=1879&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwHoZAAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA235&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+14"></span></span>