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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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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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Laws of the Union Fire Society, instituted at Boston, November 25, 1792 [i.e., 1772].
Union Fire Society (Boston, Mass.)Date: [1798 or 1799]
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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 adopted child, a musical drama, in two acts. As performed at the Hay-Makket [sic] Theatre, Boston. By Samuel Birch.
Birch, Samuel, 1757-1841.Date: --1798--
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The Boston gazette. The news-boy: a New Year's wish.
Date: 1789]
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The Constitution or frame of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts.Date: M,MCC,LXXXI [i.e., 1781]
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Gentlemen, The inhabitants of the town of Boston, legally assembled, have taken into consideration ... the subject of the fishery, and the great importance of a common right therein being secured to the United States, whenever a treaty of peace shall be concluded. ... This town have judged it necessary to instruct their representatives in the General Court on the subject. The instructions are inclos'd. ... In the name and by order of the town of Boston ... December 14, 1781.
Boston (Mass.)Date: 1781]
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A practical treatise upon the bankrupt law of the United States. By R. Fields. Attorney at law. Copy right secured.
Fields, R.Date: --1800--
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By the Council of the state of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation for a day of public humiliation and prayer. ... Thursday the fourth day of November next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, this fifteenth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...
Massachusetts. Council.Date: 1779]
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A Dialogue, between the Devil and George III. tyrant of Britain, &c. &c. &c. &c.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]
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Notification. The freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, qualified as the law directs, are hereby notified to meet at Faneuil-Hall, on Tuesday the 11th day of May, instant ... to elect, and depute one or more persons to represent them in the General Court to be holden at Boston, upon the last Wednesday in said May ...
Boston (Mass.)Date: 1784]
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A sermon preached on the completion of a general repair of the meeting house in Concord, January 24th, 1792. By Ezra Ripley, A.M. Pastor of the church in that town.
Ripley, Ezra, 1751-1841.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
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Godliness excludes slavery. [Two lines from I Corinthians]
Backus, Isaac, 1724-1806.Date: [1785]
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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]
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The precipitate choice: or, The history of Lord Ossory and Miss Rivers. A novel. In two volumes. By a lady. Vol. I-[II].
Lady.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]
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Universal damnation, and salvation, clearly proved by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. Specially recommended to the perusal of those who believe in the salvation of all mankind. [Ten lines of Scripture texts]
Tyler, John, 1742-1823.Date: --1798--
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Extracts from the proceedings of the convention at Concord, and of the town of Boston, containing the regulation of the prices of merchandize, provisions, etc. Published by order of the town.
Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]
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The New-England psalter: or Psalms of David: with the Proverbs of Solomon, and Christ's Sermon on the mount. Being an introduction for the training up children in the reading of the Holy Scriptures.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
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The School of good manners. Composed for the help of parents in teaching their children how to carry it in their places during their minority.
Date: 1794
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A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789. By Bartholomew Burges.
Burges, Bartholomew.Date: --1789
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A brief illustration and confirmation of the Divine right of infant baptism; in a plain and familiar dialogue between a minister and one of his parishioners. [Four lines from Genesis]
Dickinson, Jonathan, 1688-1747.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]
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A memorial of Lexington Battle, and of some signal interpositions of Providence in the American Revolution. A sermon preached at Lexington, on the nineteenth of April, 1782. The anniversary of the commencement of the war between Great-Britain and America, which opened in a most tragical scene, in that town, on the nineteenth of April, 1775. By Phillips Payson, A.M. Pastor of the church in Chelsea. [Two lines in Latin from Virgil]
Payson, Phillips, 1736-1801.Date: M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]
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The nature and effects of Christian sympathy, considered, in a sermon preached January 19, 1794. At the First Baptist Church in Boston; and occasioned by the death of Mr. Samuel Stillman, Jun. son of the Reverend Samuel Stillman, D.D. By Peter Thacher, D.D. Pastor of the church in Brattle-Street, Boston.
Thacher, Peter, 1752-1802.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]

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Laws of the Union Fire Society, instituted at Boston, November 25, 1792 [i.e., 1772].

The adopted child, a musical drama, in two acts. As performed at the Hay-Makket [sic] Theatre, Boston. By Samuel Birch.

The Boston gazette. The news-boy: a New Year's wish.

The Constitution or frame of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A practical treatise upon the bankrupt law of the United States. By R. Fields. Attorney at law. Copy right secured.

By the Council of the state of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation for a day of public humiliation and prayer. ... Thursday the fourth day of November next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, this fifteenth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...

A Dialogue, between the Devil and George III. tyrant of Britain, &c. &c. &c. &c.

A sermon preached on the completion of a general repair of the meeting house in Concord, January 24th, 1792. By Ezra Ripley, A.M. Pastor of the church in that town.

Godliness excludes slavery. [Two lines from I Corinthians]

The precipitate choice: or, The history of Lord Ossory and Miss Rivers. A novel. In two volumes. By a lady. Vol. I-[II].

Universal damnation, and salvation, clearly proved by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. Specially recommended to the perusal of those who believe in the salvation of all mankind. [Ten lines of Scripture texts]

Extracts from the proceedings of the convention at Concord, and of the town of Boston, containing the regulation of the prices of merchandize, provisions, etc. Published by order of the town.

The New-England psalter: or Psalms of David: with the Proverbs of Solomon, and Christ's Sermon on the mount. Being an introduction for the training up children in the reading of the Holy Scriptures.

The School of good manners. Composed for the help of parents in teaching their children how to carry it in their places during their minority.

A short account of the solar system, and of comets in general: together with a particular account of the comet that will appear in 1789. By Bartholomew Burges.

A brief illustration and confirmation of the Divine right of infant baptism; in a plain and familiar dialogue between a minister and one of his parishioners. [Four lines from Genesis]