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Disaster relief - Massachusetts

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    Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esquire ... A brief, for a charitable contribution. Whereas by the permissive providence of God, a great number of families in the town of Boston, have from ease and affluence been suddenly reduced to extreme poverty and distress, by a destructive fire, which took place on the evening of the twentieth instant ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the twenty-eighth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ...

    Massachusetts. Governor (1785-1787 : Bowdoin) | Date: [1787]
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    By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq; ... A brief. It having pleased Almighty God to permit a fire to break out in the town of Boston, on the 20th instant ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twenty-fourth day of March, 1760 ...

    Massachusetts. Governor (1757-1760 : Pownall) | Date: 1760
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