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Boston, December 1, 1773 : at a meeting of the people of Boston, and the neighbouring towns, at Faneuil-Hall, in said Boston, on Monday the 29th of November 1773, nine o'clock a.m. and continued by adjournment to the next day; for the purpose of consulting, advising and determining upon the most proper and effectual method to prevent the unloading, receiving or vending 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)
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 ... covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... June, 1774.

Unknown author (Edes and Gill, 1774)
County of Essex, colony of Massachusetts-Bay : as the connexion between Great-Britain and this continent is growing every day more and more loose and uncertain ... as we may soon be obliged to take up independency for ourselves ...

Essex County (Mass.) (Ezekiel Russell, 1776)
In Congress, July 4, 1776: a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled ...

Massachusetts. Council.; United States. Continental Congress. (Printed by E. Russell, by order of authority, 1776)
Colony of Massachusett's-Bay, 1776 : we the subscribers, do each of us severally for ourselves, profess, testify and declare, before God and the world, that we verily believe that the war, resistance and opposition in which the United American Colonies are now engaged, against the fleets and armies of Great-Britain, is on the part of the said colonies, just and necessary ...

Unknown author (Benjamin Edes, 1776)
The inhabitants of the town of Sutton, in legal town-meeting assembled, Jan. 27, 1777 : to Capt. Henry King and Capt. Samuel Trask, whom we have now chosen delegates to join in County Congress with such other towns in this county, as shall adopt the like method for the obtaining redress of the grievance by the law made last spring, for the new modeling the representation of this state; or any other grievances that any of the other towns, joining in such congress shall think proper ...

Sutton (Mass. : Town) (William Stearns and Daniel Bigelow, 1777)
Boston, August 31st, 1779 : to the gentlemen who represented the country towns in the late convention at Concord.

Unknown author (1779)
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In convention, June 16, 1780 : whereas, upon due examination of the returns made by the several towns and plantations within this state, it appears that more than two-thirds of the inhabitants thereof, who have voted on the same have expressed their approbation of the form of government agreed upon by this Convention ... this convention do hereupon declare the said form to be the Constitution of Government established by and for the inhabitants of the state of Massachusetts-Bay ...

Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention (1779-1780) (1780)
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)
By the United States in Congress assembled, April 7, 1781 : be it ordained, and it is hereby ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, that the following instructions be observed by the captains or commanders of private armed vessels, commissioned by letters of marque or general reprisals, or otherwise by the authority of the United States in Congress assembled.

United States. Continental Congress. (David C. Claypoole, 1781)
Information for Immigrants to the New England States : Since the commencement of the present unhappy war among the European nations, great numbers of people from France, Great Britain, and their West India islands ... have taken refuge in the United States...

Massachusetts Society for the Aid of Immigrants. (1795)
By the President of the United States of America, a proclamation : As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God ... I do hereby recommend, that Wednesday the ninth day of May next be observed throughout the United States, as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting and prayer ... given under my hand ... this twenty-third day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight ...

United States. President (1797-1801 : Adams); Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829. (1798)
A proclamation by the President of the United States of America

United States. President (1797-1801 : Adams) (Young & Minns, 1800)
Public lands in the District of Maine for settlement

Massachusetts. Land Office. (A.D. Alleyne, 1818)
Ode written for the celebration on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825

Wells, Thomas. (1825)
Address of the Middlesex convention of young Whigs.

Middlesex Convention of Young Whigs (1st : 1835 : Concord, Mass.) (1835)
Sale of valuable house lots in South Woburn : near the railroad.

Thompson, N. A. (Eastburn's Press, 1847)
Historical celebration, at Leicester, July 4, 1849

Unknown author (1849?)
Rates of water rents, fixed by the Water Commissioners of the village of Watertown

Watertown (N.Y.). Water Commissioners.; Watertown Water Works. (Clark & Fayel, printers, Woodruff's Iron Block, 1853)
A plan for the abolition of slavery

Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887. (publisher not identified, 1858)