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Boston, October 23, 1777. The following most important and interesting, as well as pleasing and glorious intelligence, the Honourable the Council of this state, received by express last evening from the Honourable Major-General Gates.
Date: 1777]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, August 8, 1777. Whereas by the loss of the important fortress of Ticonderoga, a way is open to the ravages of our cruel and inveterate enemies ... Resolve, that one sixth part of the able-bodied men in the training band and alarm list, now at home ... march ... to reinforce the American army ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1777]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, 23d June, 1780. Whereas His Excellency General Washington hath made a requisition upon this state for one thousand and twenty horses ... Resolved, that the agents appointed ... procure ... the number of good and serviceable horses allotted their respective towns in the schedule hereto annexed ... In Council, June 23, 1780. Read and concurred. ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1780]- Books
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, January 13, 1780. Whereas it is indispensably necessary, in order for a settlement with the army, that the accounts for the supplies of the soldiers families should be made out by the selectmen and committees in the several towns and plantations within this state, and lodged in the secretary's office forthwith ...
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, June 23, 1780. Whereas the troops of the southern states will now be needed for the defence of that quarter, and by reason of the late advantages obtained by the enemy, we are compelled to call for a further supply of men, to fill up our battalions ... as well as a detachment of militia ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1780]- Books
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A letter to the publishers of the Boston gazette, &c. Containing an answer to the Rev. Mr. Prince's letter, inserted in said gazette, on the 26th of January 1756.
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.Date: 1756]- Books
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Resolves of the General Assembly of the state of Massachusetts-Bay. Begun and held at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, on Wednesday the twenty-eighth day of May (being the last Wednesday in said month) anno domini, 1777; and thence continued by adjournments, to Wednesday the tenth day of September following, and then met at Boston aforesaid, being the third sitting of said Assembly.
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1777]- Books
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Resolves of the General Assembly of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, begun and held at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, on Wednesday the twenty-eighth day of May, (being the last Wednesday in said month) anno domini, 1777; and thence continued by adjournments to Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of November following, and then met at Boston aforesaid, being the fourth sitting of said Assembly.
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Resolves of the General Assembly of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, begun and held at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, on Wednesday the twenty-eighth day of May, (being the last Wednesday in said month) anno domini, 1777; and thence continued by adjournments to Wednesday the seventh day of January 1778, following, and then met at Boston aforesaid, being the fifth sitting of said Assembly.
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An oration, delivered March 5th, 1783. At the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By Doctor Thomas Welsh. [Two lines in Latin from Virgil]
Welsh, Thomas, 1754-1831.Date: [1783]- Books
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A sermon, preached at Stow, on the 16th of May, 1783. By Jonathan Newell, Pastor of the Church of Christ, in Stow. [One line of quotation]
Newell, Jonathan, 1749-1830.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A constitution and form of government for the state of Massachusetts-Bay. Agreed upon by the Convention of said state, February 28, 1778, to be laid before the several towns and plantations in said state, for their approbation or disapprobation.
Massachusetts. Constitutional ConventionDate: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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Faith in divine providence, the great support of God's people in perilous times. A sermon, preached at Lexington, April 19, 1780. In memory of the commencement of the unnatural war between Great-Britain and America; which took place in said town April 19, 1775. By Isaac Morrill, A.M. Pastor of the church in Wilmington. [Three lines of Scripture texts]
Morrill, Isaac, 1718-1793.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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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]- Books
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Animadversions on the Rev. Mr. Croswell's sermon, intitled, Free justification thro' Christ's redemption. In a letter to a friend. [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Date: 1765- Books
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The Following was unanimously agreed upon as the result of the conference and consultation of the committees chosen by a number of towns and districts, viz. Ninety-six towns and eight districts, conven'd at Boston the twenty-second day of September, 1768.
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The Blockheads: or, The affrighted officers. A farce.
Date: M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Whoever has candidly traced the rapid growth of these colonies from their little beginnings to their present flourishing state ... The poor devoted town of Boston has suffered, and is still suffering ... The following plan was providentially detected, and is now offered to the public ...
Watchman.Date: 1774?]- Books
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An oration; delivered at th[e] King's-Chapel in Boston, April 8, 1776, on the re-interment of the remains of the late most worshipful Grand-Master Joseph Warren, Esquire; president of the late Congress of this colony, and major-general of the Massachusetts forces; who wa slain in the Battle of Bunker's-Hill, June 17, 1775. By Perez Morton, M.M.
Morton, Perez, 1751-1837.Date: 1776- Books
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Considerations upon the act of Parliament, whereby a duty is laid of six pence sterling per gallon on molasses, and five shillings per hundred on sugar of foreign growth, imported into any of the British colonies. Shewing, some of the many inconveniencies necessarily resulting from the operation of the said act, not only to those colonies, but also to the British Sugar-Islands, and finally to Great-Britain.
Date: M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]- Books
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The Adventures of a black coat. Containing a series of remarkable occurrences and entertaining incidents, that it was a witness to in its peregrinations through the cities of London and Westminster, in company with a variety of characters. As related by itself. [One line in Latin from Horace]
Date: 1767- Books
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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
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An act, in addition to an act, intitled An act for forming and regulating the Militia within the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England: and for repealing all the laws heretofore-made for that purpose. Published by order of the General Assembly.
Massachusetts.Date: MDCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six. An act for providing a reinforcement to the American army.
Massachusetts.Date: [1776]- Books
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Remarks on the late printed Answer to Colonel Choate's Reasons of dissent from the judgement of a council, in the affair of the Rev. Mr. Bachellor, of Haverhill; wherein the weakness, inconsistencies and errors of that answer are exposed, and the author shewn to have overthrown and confounded himself, in a variety of ways and instances. The whole is done with brevity and clearness, by the author of those Reasons. [Four lines from Psalms] To which is subjoin'd, a postscript by another hand, containing some remarks on said answer, and several arguments, establishing the affirmative side of the question in dispute. [One line of quotation in Latin]
Choate, John, 1697-1765.Date: 1761