6,331 results
- Books
- Online
Order of procession for the funeral of the late Governor Sumner. Procession from Roxbury. Military escort, under the command of Brigadier General Winslow ...
Date: 1799]- Books
- Online
General orders. The commander in chief, is highly pleased with the martial spirit which pervades the greater part of the officers and other patriotic citizens ...
Massachusetts. Militia.Date: 1791]- Books
- Online
Boston, February 25, 1775. Gentlemen, The following proceedings and votes of the joint committees of this and seven other towns are conveyed to you by their unanimous request. ... At a meeting of the committees of correspondence of the several towns of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Medford, Lexington, Watertown, Brookline, and Concord ...
Boston Committee of Correspondence.Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin Esquire ... A proclamation, for the encouragement of piety, virtue, education and manners, and for the suppression of vice. ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the eighth day of June, A.D. 1785 ...
Massachusetts. Governor (1785-1787 : Bowdoin)Date: [1785]- Books
- Online
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, June 17th, 1775. Whereas some of the inhabitants of the new plantations in this colony, not incorporated ... have inlisted into the army now raising ... Resolved, that the inhabitants of the several towns and districts in the counties specified in a list hereunto annexed, who may have good and sufficient firelocks ... provide and deliver to such person or persons, as are to be now appointed ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 12, 1775. Whereas the preservation of our country from slavery, depends under God, on an effectual execution of the continental and provincial measures for that purpose: Resolved, that there be now appointed for each county in this colony, a committee consisting of five persons ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, duly qualified and legally warned, in public town meeting assembled at Faneuil-Hall, on Tuesday the 26th day of July, Anno Domini 1774 ... Voted, that a printed copy of the following letter to our brethren in the several towns ... be forthwith signed by the town-clerk, and transmitted by the Committee of Correspondence ...
Boston (Mass.)Date: 1774]- Books
- Online
Salem: Wednesday, Nov. 1, one o'clock, p.m. We have this moment received the following great and important intelligence from Capt. Stephen Lowater, who arrived at Ipswich, yesterday in 14 days from Liverpool, Nova Scotia ...
Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, legally assembled at Faneuil-Hall, on Wednesday the 28th of October, 1767.
Boston (Mass.)Date: 1767]- Books
- Online
Proposals. By the president and directors of the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, no. 16, State-Street, Boston, for insuring houses, stores, and other buildings, goods, wares, merchandize, and household furniture of all kinds, on land, against fire.
Massachusetts Fire-Insurance Company.Date: 1795]- Books
- Online
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, May 8th, 1775. Whereas there are divers persons now in this colony, who have by their conduct discovered themselves to be enemies to the rights of mankind, and the interests of America ... Therefore resolved, that ... the several committees of correspondence ... enquire into the principles and conduct of such suspected persons ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
At a meeting of the Middlesex-Canal Corporation, held at Charlestown, on the 16th day of October, 1798. "Voted, to adjourn this meeting to the 30th ..."
Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal.Date: 1798]- Books
- Online
Boston, 26th of June, 1775. This town was alarmed on the 17th instant at break of day, by a firing from the Lively ship of war; and a report was immediately spread that the rebels had broke ground, and were raising a battery on the heights of the peninsula of Charlestown, against the town of Boston. ...
Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
In Provincial Congress, Watertown, April 30, 1775. Whereas an agreement has been made between General Gage and the inhabitants of the town of Boston, for the removal of persons ... as may be so disposed ... Resolved, that any of the inhabitants of this colony, who may incline to go into the town of Boston ... have toleration for that purpose ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]- Books
- Online
The strange and wonderful predictions of Mr. Christopher Love, Minister of the Gospel at Lawrence-Jury, London; who was beheaded on Tower-Hill in the time of Oliver Cromwell's government of England: giving an account of Babylon's fall, or the destruction of popery; and, in the glorious event, a general reformation over all the world.
Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.Date: 1759- Books
- Online
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esquire, governour ... A proclamation. Whereas information has been given to the supreme executive of the commonwealth, that on Tuesday last, the 29th of August ... a large concourse of people ... assembled at the court-house in Northampton, many of whom were armed with guns ... Given at the Council-chamber, in Boston, this second day of September ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six ...
Massachusetts. Governor (1785-1787 : Bowdoin)Date: [1786]- Books
- Online
Agreeable intelligence. Printing office, New Bedford, Tuesday December 31st, 1793. Last evening the sloop Hazard, George Folger, Jun. master, arrived from New York.--He has favored us with a paper printed there, of the 21st inst. which contains the following interesting particulars ... relating to the Algerines ...
Date: 1793]- Books
- Online
Articles of agreement relative to the whale-fishery.
Date: 1769]- Books
- Online
We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
Boston Committee of Correspondence.Date: 1774]- Books
- Online
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, February 26, 1781. Whereas it is of the utmost importance that the quota of men required by a resolve of the 2d of December last, be speedily compleated ... therefore, resolved, that the assessors of every deficient town ... where the mode of classing has not been adopted, be, and they hereby are authorized and directed immediately upon the receipt hereof, to class their inhabitants ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1781]- Books
- Online
State of Massachusetts Bay. In the House of Representatives. September 14, 1779. Whereas it is indispensably necessary that a supply of blankets should be immediately procured for the service of the army: resolved, that the selectmen of each town ... are required to collec from the inhabitants of the town ... a number of blankets ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1779]- Books
- Online
We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [blank] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America ... Do, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
Boston Committee of Correspondence.Date: 1774]- Books
- Online
Boston, June 22d, 1773. Sir, The Committee of Correspondence of the town of Boston, conformable to that duty which they have hitherto endeavoured to discharge with fidelity, again address you with a very fortunate important discovery; and cannot but express their grateful sentiments in having obtained the approbation of so large a majority of the towns in this colony ...
Boston Committee of Correspondence.Date: 1773]- Books
- Online
The character of His Excellency William Burnet, Esq; late governour of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, &c. Boston, Sept. 8. 1729.
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747.Date: 1729- Books
- Online
Whereas a great number of people have express'd a desire that the names of the addressers to the late Gov. Hutchinson, and protesters against the solemn league and covenant might be made publick, the following is a true list of the same, viz. ...
Date: [1774]