"No, the committee is presumably a subset of the General Court, but
every member of the General Court is the Deputy of his respective
town. To put it another way, presumably every committee member was a
deputy, but surely not every deputy was a committee member."
Based on what evidence? The references to deputies I saw in the Plymouth
Records indicated
that they were strictly tools of the court i.e. officials who brought
evidence against suspects for court proceedings. I fear Mr. Chandler is
reading democracy into a situation that had none. The question remains how
they were appointed, although I suspect either way they served the interests
of the Plymouth Court and not their own community interests. I fear William
Carpenter realized that the hard way. You could only have realized that by
reading all the books and not a FHL microfilm.
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