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An Act to Prevent Profane Cursing and Swearing

Massachusetts. (Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1798)

Description: 1 broadside 45 x 28 cm.In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight. ;"Evans 34068."

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An act to secure the Town of Boston from damage by fire An act in addition to an act, entitled An act to secure the Town of Boston from damage by fire, and repealing certain parts thereof.

Massachusetts. General Court. (Commonwealth of Massachusetts, General Court, 1798)

Description: 1 broadside 46 x 26 cm.At head of title: Commonwealth of Massachusetts.;"The first act approved June 27, 1798 and the additional act approved Feb 9, 1803."

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Address of the Middlesex convention of young Whigs.

Middlesex Convention of Young Whigs (1st : 1835 : Concord, Mass.) (1835)

Description: 1 broadside 41 x 19 cm.Accompanied by a call for delegates to the convention 14 x 19 cm.

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At a Great and General court or Assembly for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, begun and held at Boston the 27th Day of May 1747... voted, that it be, and hereby is, strongly recommended to the several Churches and Congregations within this Province, to make an honourable Provision for the support of their Ministers, proportionable to the great Rise of the necessaries of Life since their Settlement.

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. (1747)

Description: broadside 8.5 x 13 in.Endorsement: To the Town Clerk in Pelham. [Other indecipherable writing included];"Ford 880"

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At a meeting of ... Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the County of Hampshire, holden at Northampton ... 27 of April 1796 ... voted, that it is the opinion of this meeting, that the Treaty lately negotiated with Great Britain, ought to be carried into immediate effect...

Unknown author (1796)

Description: broadside. 8.5 x12.5 in.Inscription: Shutesbury.;"Document signed: Quartus Pomeroy.";"Endorsement: Selectmen of Shutesbury."

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At a Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, legally assembled in Faneuil Hall by Adjournment, on Friday the Sixth Day of September, 1782 : The Honorable Samuel Adams, Esq. Moderator. The committee appointed to consider what steps are proper to be taken on the alarming and destructive Lengths to which an illicit Trade with our Enemies is now carried...

Boston (Mass.) (1782)

Description: broadside 11 x 14 in.Document signed: William Cooper.;"Endorsement: The Selectmen or Committee of Rutland. [Other indecipherable writing included.]";"Evans 17480."

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Boston, December 1, 1773. At a meeting of the people of Boston and the neighboring towns at Faneuil-Hall ... on Monday the 29th of November 1773 ... for the purpose of consulting, advising and determining upon the most proper and effectual method to prevent the detestable tea sent out by the East India Company, part of which being just arrived in this harbour...

Unknown author (Edes and Gill, 1773)

Description: broadside 16.5 x 13 in.Important historical broadside inciting events leading to the Boston Tea Party.

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Boston, December 1, 1773. Gentlemen, the Committee of Correspondence for this town had just prepared their Letter covering the Proceedings of the Town ... when a Ship arrived from London with Part of the East-India Company's Teas...

Boston Committee of Correspondence. (1773)

Description: broadside 12 x 7.5 in.Document signed: William Cooper, Clerk.;"Endorsement: Decm. 1773.";"Ford 1665"

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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. (Edes and Gill, 1775)

Description: broadside 15.5 x 10 in.Signed by William Cooper, clerk.;"Endorsement: Febr. 1775. For the Committee of Corresponcence in Rutland.";"Evans 14193"

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By the Honourable William Dummer, Esq. Lieutenant Governour & Commander In Chief in & over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England A Proclaimation whereas within some short time past many fires have broke out within the Town of Boston ... Which Fires have been dsignedly and industriously kindled by some villanous & desperate negroes, or other dissolute people...

Massachusetts. Laws, etc. (Printed by B. Green, 1723)

Description: broadside 12 x 8 in.Ford 498

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By the major Part of the Council of the State of Massachusetts-Bay : A Proclamation For convening the Great and General Court of Assembly... Given at the Council in Boston, this Twenty-ninth Day of August, A.D. 1780

Massachusetts. Council. (1780)

Description: broadside 13 x 8 in.Endorsement: Southborough.;"This broadside is not listed by Evans or Ford (Massachusetts Broadsides Etc.)"

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