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A sermon preached to the Ancient and Honourable Artillery-Company in Boston, New-England; June 7, 1756. Being the anniversary of their election of officers. By Ebenezer Pemberton, M.A. Pastor of a church in Boston.
Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1705-1777.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. The Honorable Henry Gardner, Esq; treasurer and receiver-general of the said state. To the selectmen or assessors of the town of [blank] Greeting, &c. In obedience to an act ... These are in the name of the government and people of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, to will and require you forthwith to assess the sum ... Given under my hand and seal at Boston, the twenty-fourth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty.
Massachusetts. Treasury Department.Date: 1780]
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A philosophical discourse addressed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the presence of a respectable audience, assembled at the meeting-house in Brattle-Street, in Boston, on the eighth of November M,DCC,LXXX, after the inauguration of the president into office. By James Bowdoin, Esq. president of the said academy. [Five lines of quotation]
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 6, 1777. That the army may be duly supplied with shoes, stockings, and shirts, it is resolved, that the selectmen of the several towns ... appoint some ... person or persons, as agent or agents ... to purchase ... shoes ... stockings and shirts ...
Massachusetts. General Court.Date: 1777]
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For the encouragement of those that shall inlist in the Continental Army --the Congress in their resolves of September 16th, 18th, 19th, October 8th, and November 12th, 1776, engage, that twenty dollars be given as a bounty ... And for their further encouragement, the stat of Massachusetts-Bay, has, by a resolve of November 25 last engaged ...
Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.Date: 1776]
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A proclamation for a public thanksgiving. ... Thursday the twenty-third day of November instant ... Given under our hands at the Council-chamber, in Watertown, this fourth day of November ...
Massachusetts. Council.Date: M,DCC,LXXV [1775]
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Case of Great Britain and America, addressed to the King, and both Houses of Parliament. [Three lines of quotation]
Bushe, Gervase Parker, 1744?-1793.Date: [1769]
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Copy of letters sent to Great-Britain, by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and several other persons, born and educated among us. Which original letters have been returned to America, and laid before the Honorble [sic] House of Representatives of this province. In which (notwithstanding His Excellency's declaration to the House, that the tendency and design of them was not to subvert the Constitution, but rather to preserve it entire) the judicious reader will discover the fatal source of the confusion and bloodshed in which this province especially has been involved, and which threatned [sic] total destruction to the liberties of all America.
Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780.Date: 1773
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In Provincial Congress, Concord, April 15, 1775. Whereas it has pleased the righteous Sovereign of the Universe, in just indignation against the sins of a people ... Resolved ... that Thursday the eleventh day of May next be set apart as a day of public humiliation, fastin and prayer ...
Massachusetts. Provincial Congress.Date: 1775]
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By the United States in Congress assembled. Proclamation. At all times it is our duty to acknowledge the over-ruling providence of the great Governor of the Universe ... recommend, that Thursday the third day of May next may be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer ... Done in Congress the twentieth day of March ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one ...
United States. Continental Congress.Date: 1781]
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Rules and articles for the better government of the troops raised, or to be raised and kept in pay by and at the expence of the United States of America.
United States. Continental Congress.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]
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The evangelical preacher's determination-- A sermon preached at the ordination of the Reverend Mr. Asaph Rice, to the pastoral office over the Church of Christ at Westminster, October 16, 1765. By Eli Forbes, A.M. Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Brookfield. [Two lines of Scripture text]
Forbes, Eli, 1726-1804.Date: 1766
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The snare broken. A thanksgiving-discourse, preached at the desire of the West Church in Boston, N.E. Friday May 23, 1766. Occasioned by the repeal of the stamp-act. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of said Church.
Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.Date: 1766
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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]
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A serious address to that part of the Congregational Church in Newbury-Port, which, for the present, attend the public worship of God in the court-house. Occasioned by two letters published by the Rev. Mr. John Tucker, to make void, in part, a sermon preached to said church on their solemn fast, June 25, 1767. It contains also, an account of the dividing of said church and parish into two Christian societies. By James Chandler, A.M. Pastor of the West Church in Rowley, and author of said sermon.
Chandler, James, 1706-1789.Date: 1768
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Striving to enter in at the strait gate explain'd and inculcated; and the connexion of salvation therewith, proved from the holy Scriptures. In two sermons on Luke XIII. 24. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West Church in Boston. [Two lines of Scripture text]
Mayhew, Jonathan, 1720-1766.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]
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The folly, infamy, and misery of unlawful pleasure. A sermon preached before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, May 25, 1760. By James Fordyce, D.D.
Fordyce, James, 1720-1796.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]
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The speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay. At a session begun and held on the sixth of January, 1773. With the answers of His Majesty's Council and the House of Representatives respectively. (Publish'd by order o the House.)
Massachusetts. Governor (1770-1774 : Hutchinson)Date: M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]
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The ass: or, the serpent. A comparison between the tribes of Issachar and Dan, in their regard for civil liberty. November 5, 1712. By Thomas Bradbury. [Three lines from Job]
Bradbury, Thomas, 1677-1759.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]
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A speech intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the colony of Massachusett's Bay.
Shipley, Jonathan, 1714-1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]
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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.Date: 1775]
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A short introduction to the Latin tongue: for the use of the lower forms in the Latin School, being the accidence abridged and compiled in that most easy and accurate method, wherein the famous Mr. Ezekiel Cheever taught, and which he found the most advantageous by seventy years experience. To which is added, a catalogue of irregular nouns and verbs, disposed alphabetically.
Cheever, Ezekiel, 1615-1708.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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The art of war, the gift of God. A discourse delivered at Middleborough, before three military companies, April 6, 1759. Being the day of general muster in the Massachusetts province, for the Canada-expedition. By Silvanus Conant, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in said Middleborough. [Two lines from King David]
Conant, Sylvanus, 1720-1777.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]
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A sermon occasioned by the death of the Honourable Sir William Pepperrell, Bart. lieutenant-general in His Majesty's service, &c. Who died at his seat in Kittery, July 6th, 1759, aged 63. Preached the next Lord's-Day after his funeral. By Benjamin Stevens, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Kittery.
Stevens, Benjamin, 1721-1791.Date: M,DCC,LIX. [1759]
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A sermon on the knowledge of Christ as the believer's ever-living redeemer. Preached at Cambridge on the Lord's-Day October 15, 1768. By Samuel Haven, A.M. Pastor of the South Church in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire.
Haven, Samuel, 1727-1806.Date: 1768