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  At a General Court held at Boston the 11th. of Octob. 1675 [i.e., 1676]. Whereas it hath pleased our gracious God, contrary to the many evill-deservings of an unworthy and sinfull people such as we are ... This court doth appoint and set apart the ninth day of November next to be a day of solemn thanksgiving and praise to God ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
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  Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secr'. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, ...
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  A funeral elegie (written many years since) on the death of the memorable and truly honourable John Winthrope Esq: governour of the Massachusets Colony in N-England. For the space of 19 years, who died in the 63d. year of his age. March 26. 1649.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Lowell, Percival, 1571-1665.
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  Verse of ninety-eight lines; first line: You English Mattachusians all. Signed: Perciful Lowle [i.e., Percival Lowell]. Bristol supplies imprint: [Boston, J. Foster, 1676]. A funeral elegy upon the death of Winthrop's son, ...
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  At a sessions of the General Court held at Boston the 3d. of November 1675. This court being in some measure sensible of the hand of the Lord being stretched forth against us in the way of His judgments ... doth appoint and set apart the second day of December next to be kept a day of solemn humiliation and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
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  Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secret'. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, ...
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  At a meeting of the Council in Boston in the Massachusets in New-England March the fourth, 1674,5. Upon consideration of the condition of the people of God in other parts of the world ... The Council, have thought it expedient, to appoint the twenty fifth day of this instant, to be kept as a day of humiliation, in fasting, and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Signed: By order of the Council, Edw. Rawson. secr. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, ...
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  At a General Court held at Boston, February the 21st. 1675 [new style, 1676]. Upon the serious consideration of that cloud of the Lords anger wherewith He hath covered this land ... The Court doth appoint the second day of March next to be kept as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Signed: Edward Rawson secr'. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, p. 13-44. Not ...
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  At a Council held at Boston, September the seventeenth 1675. It having pleased the Holy God ... The governour and Council of this jurisdiction therefore ... do appoint and order the seventh day of the next moneth; to be a day of public humiliation, with fasting and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council. and Massachusetts. Governor (1673-1679 : Leverett).
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  Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, p. 13-44. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  At a Council held at Boston the 25th. of June, 1675. The governour and magistrates being assembled in Council to consider of the publick affairs of this common-weal ... doe nominate and appoint the 29th. day of this instant June to be kept as a day of humiliation and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1675
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council. and Massachusetts. Governor (1673-1679 : Leverett).
  Description:
  Signed: By the Council, Edward Rawson secret. From 1675 to 1681, both Samuel Green of Cambridge and John Foster of Boston were employed as printers by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  A Funeral elegy upon the death of that excellent and most worthy gentleman John Winthrop Esq. late governour of his majestyes colony of Conecticot; who deceased April, 1676.
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Chester, Stephen, 1640-1705.
  Description:
  Verse of forty-six lines; first line: Let woe be printed nigh unto our land. Followed by: Accrosticon [sic] and Epitaph. Imprint supplied by Samuel Abbott Green in his John Foster: the earliest American engraver and the ...
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  Lamentations upon the never enough bewailed death of the Reverend Mr. John Reiner, Pastor of the church of Christ at Dover who was gathered to his Father December, 21. 1676.
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  In verse; first line: When heathen first assail'd our peaceful land. The only known copy, held by the Boston Athenaeum, is imperfect. Imprint suggested in Winslow, O.E. American broadside verse, 1930, p. 10-12. Text in two ...
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  Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. ss. By virtue of an act of the General Assembly ... passed the 24th. of June, 1692. ... These are in Their Majesties names to will and require you ... to collect all and every the sums of money ... Given under my hand and seal of office, at Charlstown the eighteenth day of November. 1692. ... To the constables of [blank]
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Treasury Office. ; Phillips, John, 1632-1726. and Boxford (Mass. : Town)
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N29501) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 39299) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  Threnodia, or A mournfull remembrance, of the much to be lamented death of the worthy & pious Capt. Anthony Collamore, who together with five persons more were cast-away in a sloop going from Scituate harbour toward Boston, on the 16. day of December 1693.
  Date of publication:
  1694
  

  Author(s):

  Lawson, Deodat.
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  Verse in twenty-seven stanzas; first line: The great Jehovah is the Lord and King. Signed: Gemebundus composuit Deodat Lawson. Text in three columns within mourning borders. Not in Wing (2nd ed.). Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  Upon the death of that reverend and aged man of God, Mr. Samuel Arnold, Pastor of the church at Marshfield, who deceased in the 71st year of his age, and of his ministry the 36th, September 1. 1693.
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Wiswell, Ichabod, 1637-1700. and Arnold, Samuel, 1622-1693.
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  Verse in twenty-two numbered stanzas; first line: When lights go out, darkness succeeds. Followed by: Samuel Arnold. Anagram, Leave old Arm's [and] Mr. Samuel Arnold, the late faithful preacher of the gospel at Marshfield, ...
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  A True copy of the oaths that are appointed by act of Parliament, made in the first year of Their present Majesties reign; to be taken instead of the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, and the declaration appointed to be made, repeated, and subscribed I A.B- do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary. So help me God &c. ...
  Date of publication:
  1693
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  The Massachusetts Archives copy, dated May 1693, is signed by members of the Massachusetts Council and notarized by Gov. William Phips. Ascribed to the press of Benjamin Harris by Bristol.
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  Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England. By His Excellency and Council. ... Thursday, the twenty ninth of December currant, to be kept as a day of solemn prayer with fasting ...
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1692-1695 : Phips). ; Phips, William, Sir, 1651-1695. and Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Signed: Boston, December 20. 1692. Isaac Addington, secr. Benjamin Harris was printer to the governor and Council in 1692. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  A true copy of the oaths that are appointed by act of Parliament, made in the first year of Their present Majesties reign; to be taken instead of the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, and the declaration appointed to be made, repeated and subscribed.
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales.
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N29502) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 39300) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  By His Excellency the governour. Whereas it hath been of absolute necessity, that a certain number of men should be impressed ... And that some persons imployed therein, have passed the bounds of their duty ... It is hereby required, that all the wholsome laws here in force against vice of all kinds ... be ... immediately and impartially put in execution. ... Given at Boston, and dated the 17th day of July, 1692. ...
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1692-1695 : Phips). and Phips, William, Sir, 1651-1695.
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  Royal arms at head of title.
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  Advertisement. It has been thought proper to certify unto all people, especially ministers, gentlemen, physicians, lawyers, and students in any sciences throughout this country, that Mr. Richard Wilkins, who lives over against the west end of the town-house in Boston has out of respect unto the service & honour of the country taken care to furnish himself, with such a variety of books on all subjects both old & new, as is not to be found in any other part of America ...
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Wilkins, Richard, 1623?-1704.
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  Imprint supplied by the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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  From the Yearly Meeting at Burlington, the 4th 5th 6th & 7th days of the seventh month, anno 1692. To our friends and brethren in the truth, both in Pennsylvania, East and West-Jersey, and else-where, as there may be occasion, to be read in their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, as they in the wisdom of God shall see meet. : Whereas there hath been an unhappy difference of late between our friends George Keith, and the rest concerned with him ...
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
  Description:
  Signed by Robert Turner and sixty nine others. Printer's name supplied by Bristol.
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  Civitat. New-York, April. 17. 1691. Annoque Reg. Regis & Reginæ Gulielm. & Mariæ tertio. By His Excellency the governour and Council, and House of Representatives for the province of New-York, viz. Die Veneris April 17. 1691. ...
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  New York (State). Governor (1690-1691 : Sloughter). ; Sloughter, Henry, d. 1691. and New York (State). General Assembly.
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  Declaring that the actions of Jacob Leisler and others in seizing authority in 1689 were "tumultuous, illegal, and against Their Eajesties right over this their province." Signed: By order of the House of Representatives, ...
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  Advertisement. Whereas at the instance and request of divers gentlemen and merchants, the governour and Council, with the consent of the General Court, have ... accepted the propositions of the said particular gentlemen ... to settle and maintain an officer and garrison at Port Royal ...
  Date of publication:
  1691
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Dated: Boston, June 5th, 1691.
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  Mrs. Mehetabel Holt a person of early piety, and quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, was born at Newbury in New-England, and died at Bishop-Stoke, September 30th. 1677. AEtat. 38.
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
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  Followed by verse of 6 lines; first line: America afforded me my birth. Imprint supplied by Bristol. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  An advertisement. Whereas the lands of Narrhaganset, and Niantick Countryes, and parts adjacent, are places very pleasant and fertile ... These are therefore to certifie & inform all Christian people, that are willing or may be desirous to settle themselves in a regular way of townships on the said lands, that they may please to apply themselves to the subscribers hereof in Boston ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Bradstreet, Simon, 1640-1683. ; Saffin, John, 1632-1710. and Hutchinson, Elisha, 1641-1717.
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  Signed: Dated in Boston the 30th. of July. 1678. Simon Bradstreet. John Saffin. Elisha Hutchinson. John Foster was the only printer active at Boston in 1678.
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  A funeral elegy upon the much lamented death of that pretious [sic] holy man of God Mr. Thomas Walley, for many years preacher of Gods word in London, and of late the reverend pastor of the Church of Christ in Barnstable in New-England, who departed this life on the Sabbath morning, March. 24th, 1677.8. being newly entred [sic] into the sixty second year of his age.
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1640-1699.
  Description:
  Verse; first line: How many hearts do now with tears lament. Signed: An hearty mourner, J.C. Attributed to John Cotton (1640-1699) by C.K. Shipton. This supposition is supported by the evidence of Cotton's relationship ...
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  At a Council held at Boston, January the 3d. 1677 [new style, 1678]. Whereas the holy God, who out of His tender mercy and bowels of compassion hath preserved this people ... The joint consideration of these things have moved the Council to set apart the one and twentieth of February next, to be kept as a day of solemn humiliation and prayer unto God ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Signed: By the Council. Edward Rawson secr't. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, ...
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  At a Council held at Boston the 22d. of August 1678. Whereas Benjamin Wait and Stephen Jennings of Hadley on the 24th. of October last 1677. were appointed and ordered by the honoured Governour John Leveret Esq. to take their journey to Cannada in order to their procuring the several English captives that were taken by the Indians from Hatfield on the 19th. of September last ...
  Date of publication:
  1678
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Concerning money raised for the redemption and provision of the captives. Signed: By order of the Council, Edward Rawson secr. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony ...
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  By the General Court held at Boston, October the tenth, 1677. Whereas the Lords wayes towards his people are often mixt with mercies and judgements ... This court do order, appoint, and set apart, the fifteenth of November next, to be kept a day of thanksgiving unto God ...
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secr't. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, ...
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  The oath of allegiance I A.B. do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testifie, and declare in may conscience before God and the world, that our Sovereign Lord King Charles is lawful and rightful King of the realm of England ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). and Massachusetts.
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  Signed: That this is a true copie compared with the original sent in His Majesties letter and is printed and published by order of the General Court setting in Boston in New-England the second of October, Edward Rawson ...
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  At a sessions of the General Court held at Boston the 11th October 1676. This court having had manifold experience in former dayes ... doth appoint and set apart the first Thursday in December, being the seventh day of the moneth to be kept, a day of solemn humiliation and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secret. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, ...
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  To the constables and select men of [blank] According to an order of the General Court held at Boston, May 23. 1677. You are in His Majestyes name required to collect of the several inhabitants rateable, your towns proportion to six single country rates according to your last years valuation ...
  Date of publication:
  1677
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Treasury Office.
  Description:
  Tax warrant, dated: Boston; June 6. 1667. John Foster was the only printer active at Boston in 1677. Printed area measures 9.6 x 12.4 cm. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  At a General Court held at Boston the 3d of May 1676. For defraying the charges already expended upon the warre and other charges arising in the further prosecution thereof ...
  Date of publication:
  1676
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Assessing rates to defray the cost of the war. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr. Ascribed to the press of John Foster by Cushing. Bristol gives Samuel Green in Cambridge, Mass. as printer. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Advertisement. These are to give notice to all persons where these papers shall come; that a servant man belonging to Hannah Bosworth of Hull; whose name is Matthew Jones: he is a taylor by trade ... ran away from his mistress the 22d. of February 1682. ...
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Bosworth, Hannah.
  Description:
  Dated: March 6. 1683.
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  By the King. A proclamation. Charles R. Whereas the safeguard and protection we owe to such of our own subjects ... hath been violated by the piratical practises, depredations, and insolencies of private men of war ... Given at our court at Newmarket the twelfth day of March ... 1683,4. ...
  Date of publication:
  1684
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). ; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. and Massachusetts. Council.
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  Concerning the preservation of neutrality of English harbors. Not in Wing (2nd ed.). Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  By Thomas Danforth Esq; president of the province of Mayne, with the consent of the council assembled in York; Octob. [blank] 1682. Wee having taken into our serious consideration the great favour of God, manifested towards his people in this province ...
  Date of publication:
  1682
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. President of the Province of Maine. and Danforth, Thomas, 1622-1699.
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  Appointing Nov. 23rd a day of thanksgiving. Thomas Danforth, appointed by the Massachusetts Council, presided over this province from 1680-1686. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing.
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  At a General Court on adjournment, held at Boston, March, 14. 1682 [new style, 1683]. This court considering the solemn warnings of Providence ... Do therefore appoint the tenth of May next for a day of solemn humiliation ...
  Date of publication:
  1683
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Signed: By the Court, Edward Rawson secretary. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, ...
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  The governour and Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England. At a General Court held at Boston, by adjournment from the 28th of January to the 18th of March, 1684 [1685 New Style].
  Date of publication:
  1685
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  An addition to the law on conveyances. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secr't. Ascribed to the press of Samuel Green by Cushing. Colonial seal at head of title.
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  Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. By the Honorable the lieut. governour, and commander in chief. A proclamation. Whereas the Indians within the eastern parts of this His Majesties province ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the ninth day of February. ... 1698 [1699 N.S.].
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1692-1701 : Stoughton). and Stoughton, William, 1632-1701.
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  Regulating trade relations with the Eastern Indians. Signed: William Stoughton. God save the King. Royal arms at head of title. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  By His Excellency Richard Earl of Bellomont, captain general and governour in chief of His Majesties province of New-York ... A proclamation[.] Whereas the acts of General Assembly for the establishing courts of judicature for the ease and benefit of each respective city, town and county within this province, are expired by their own limitations, and it being highly necessary that justice be duely administred ... Given at Fort William Henry in New-York the 19th day of January, 1698 ...
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  New York (State). Governor (1698-1701 : Bellomont). and Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
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  Reinstating the expired courts of judicature for the province of New York. Signed: Bellomont. By order, B. Cosens, cl. Concilij. God save the King. Royal arms at head of title. Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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  Province of the Massachusetts-Bay ss. By the honorable, the lieutenant governour ... A proclamation. For preventing and punishing immorality and prophaneness. ... Given under my hand at Boston, the 16th. day of June, 1698. ...
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1692-1701 : Stoughton). and Stoughton, William, 1632-1701.
  Description:
  Signed: William Stoughton. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  Advertisement. Ran away the 13th of this instant June, from his master, William Tilly of Boston, rope maker, a Carolina Indian man-servant ...
  Date of publication:
  1697
  

  Author(s):

  Tilly, William, ca. 1641-1717.
  Description:
  Dated: Boston, June 14th. 1697. Ascribed to the press of Bartholomew Green and John Allen by Bristol. Not in Wing. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  Association. Whereas there has been a horrid and detestable conspiracy formed and carried on by Papists and other wicked and traiterous persons for assassinating His Majesties royal person ... We whose names are hereunto subscribed, do heartily ... declare, that his present Majesty King William is rightful and lawful King of the realms of England, Scotland and Ireland ...
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Leverett, John, 1662-1724.
  Description:
  The Huntington Library copy is signed in ms.: John Leverett [and three others]. Imprint suggested by Bristol.
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  Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By His Excellency, Richard, Earl of Bellomont ... A proclamation. ... that all officers, civil and military within the said province, be, and are hereby continued in their respective offices, trusts, and imployments ... Given at Boston, the twenty sixth day of May ... 1699. ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

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  Massachusetts. Governor (1699-1700 : Bellomont). and Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
  Description:
  Signed: By command of His Excellency & Council. Isaac Addington, secr. Bellomont. Not in Wing (2nd ed.).
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  Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. By His Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont ... A proclamation. ... the Great & General Court of Assembly is hereby accordingly prorogued unto Wedensday [sic] the sixth of December ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the ninth day of October 1699. ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1699-1700 : Bellomont). and Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
  Description:
  Signed: By order of His Excellency and Council. Isaac Addington, secr. Bellomont. Not in Wing (2nd ed.). Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  A funeral elegy humbly dedicated to the renowned memory of the Honorable, Thomas Danforth Esq. of Cambridge, sometimes deputy governour in the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay ... who ... did to our inconceivable loss, but his unparallel'd gain, rest from all his labours, on the sacred day of rest, the memorable 5th of November anno Domini. 1699. ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Danforth, John, 1660-1730.
  Description:
  Signed: John Danforth. Printed in three columns, within a mourning border. First line: Judge of the quick and dead I am not ...
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  The Turkish fast, out of the Monthly Mercury, for December, 1697.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  (Evans-TCP ; no. N29531) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 39333) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  To all persons whom these may concern, in the several townes, and plantations of the United Colonies in New-England. It is hereby declared, that His Highness the Lord Protectour of the Common Wealth of England &c.: hath commissioned and impowered Daniel Gookin dwelling at Cambridg in the Massachusets, to make agreement with any convenient number of the English in the colonies of New-England, who shall desire to remove themselves or families into Jamaica in the West-Indies ... Dated this 25 of March 1656.
  Date of publication:
  1656
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell). ; Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687. and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
  Description:
  See George P. Winship's The Cambridge press, 1638-1692, 1945, p. 178, which suggests that Daniel Gookin had this notice printed and distributed upon his return to Cambridge from London in 1656. Samuel Green printed alone ...
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  Whereas the lawes published by the Honoured General Court, Lib. I. Pag. 76. Sect. 3, do require all townes from time to time to dispose of single persons and inmates within their towns to service, or otherwise. ... These are therefore in His Majesties name to require you to acquaint the select men of your town, that the court doth expect and will require that the said lawes be accordingly attended, the prevolency of the former neglect notwithstanding. ...
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Notice from the General Court of Massachusetts to the constables.
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  At a General Court held at Boston, March the eleventh 1673,4. Whereas it pleaseth God still to exercise his people here & else-where, with many and various difficulties and trialls ... These and other considerations hath moved this court, who do hereby order & appoint that the twenty sixt[h] day of this instant March, be set apart & kept as a day of humiliation and prayer ...
  Date of publication:
  1674
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. General Court.
  Description:
  Signed: Edward Rawson secr. Imprint determined from colony seal used. Cf. Jones, Matt B. The early Massachusetts-Bay Colony seals, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, new series, v. 44, 1934, p. 13-44. Not in ...
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  At a General Court held at Boston, in the year [blank] It is ordered by this Court and the authority thereof, that the following order shall be directed and sent ...
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts.
  Description:
  Order to dispose of single persons, stubborn children, and servants to houses of correction. Signed: By the Court Edward Rawson secret. Imprint supplied by Cushing. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  Upon the death of the virtuous and religious Mrs. Lydia Minot, (the wife of Mr. John Minot of Dorchester;) the mother of five children, who died in child-bed of the sixth; and together therewith was interred January 27. 1667 [1668, new style].
  Date of publication:
  1668
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Three poems, preceded by an epitaph. The title of each poem is an anagram on Lydia Minot; the third includes also an acrostic on that name. Imprint supplied by Bristol and Ford. Relief cut (Reilly 18) at head and two smaller ...
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  The answer, of the House of Representatives, to His Excellency the Earl of Bellomont's speech, to the General Assembly, of New-Hampshire, on Munday [sic], August 7. 1699. ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  New Hampshire. General Assembly. House of Representatives.
  Description:
  "Signed by order and in behalf of the representatives, Samuel Penhallow, speaker." Imprint supplied from McMurtrie, Douglas C. Three printed New Hampshire documents of 1699, Chicago, 1935. Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  A congratulatory address, of the House of Representatives of His Majesties province of New-Hampshire, conven'd in General Assembly, August 7th. anno Domini. 1699. To His Excellency Richard, Earl of Bellomont ...
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  New Hampshire. General Assembly. House of Representatives. and Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
  Description:
  Signed: By order, and in behalf of the House of Representatives. Samuel Penhallow, speaker. Not in Wing (2nd ed.). Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. And declaration.
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  The Huntington Library copy is signed in ms. by John Leverett and three others and dated January 1700. Manuscript annotation on verso: Justices sworn[.] Sessions Sept. 1699. Imprint supplied by Bristol.
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  Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. By His Excellency, Richard, Earl of Bellomont ... A proclamation. ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the fourteenth day of March, 1699 [new style, 1700].
  Date of publication:
  1699
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1699-1700 : Bellomont). and Bellomont, Richard Coote, Earl of, 1636-1701.
  Description:
  Ordering that measures be taken to combat the rumor that King William intended to withdraw his protection from the Indians and to go to war against them. Signed: By order of His Excellency & Council. Isaac Addington secr. ...
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  Advertisement For as much as by His Majesty's gracious care, his immediate government is now settled, and such regulations like to be speedily made in the Narraganset Countrey or Kings-Province ... and the proprietors being desireous speedily to encourage the regular settlement of a town ... Richard Wharton, Elisha Hutchinson, John Saffin, at Boston. Dated in Boston, June 9th. 1686.
  Date of publication:
  1686
  

  Author(s):

  Wharton, Richard, d. 1689. ; Hutchinson, Elisha, 1641-1717. and Saffin, John, 1632-1710.
  Description:
  Probably printed by Richard Pierce, printer to the president and council of the New England Dominion, which appointed Wharton, Hutchinson and Saffin to a commission to deal with matters concerning the Narraganset Country.
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  The Answer of the subscribers to the declaration given in by the representatives, of the several towns of the colony of the Massachusets, which was publickly declared at the town-house. Boston, May 24. 1689. Upon the occasion of the revolution of the late government under Sir Edmond Andross ... We who are of the persons chosen and sworn governour, deputy governour, and assistants (according to charter) in the year 1686. ... do consent to accept the care and government of the people of this colony ...
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Bradstreet, Simon, 1603-1697.
  Description:
  Also requesting "that the respective towns, send their representatives for our assistance ..." which action resulted in the reconvening of the General Court on June 5, 1689. Signed by Simon Bradstreet and twelve others. ...
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  By His Excellency a proclamation, commanding the setting at liberty His Majesty's subjects lately taken and detained by Indians; and all Indians actually concerned in the murder of any to surrender themselves. ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twentieth day of October ... 1688.
  Date of publication:
  1688
  

  Author(s):

  Territory and Dominion of New-England. President (1686-1689 : Andros). and Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714.
  Description:
  Signed: By His Excellency's command. E. Andros. Andros was president of the Territory and Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689. Not in Wing (2nd ed.). Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides.
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  King's County in the province of New Yorke, s.s. These are to certify all whome it may concern that [blank] of the province of New Yorke [blank] yeares inhabitant: appeared before mee, Gerrert Strycker, high, sherrif of the said county [blank] and there did take an oath of allegiance as is directed by and [sic] act of General Assembly by the province of New Yorke ...
  Date of publication:
  1687
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Imprint supplied by Bristol. Not in Wing.
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  An elegiack verse, on the death of the pious and profound grammarian and rhetorician, Mr. Elijah Corlet, school-master of Cambridge, who deceased anno aetatis 77. Feb. 24. 1687.
  Date of publication:
  1687
  

  Author(s):

  Walter, Nehemiah, 1663-1750.
  Description:
  Eighty-one lines of verse; first line: On Roman feet my stumbling muse declines. Signed: Nehemiah Walter. Text in two columns.
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  To Friends, from a Yearly Meeting held at Philadelphia, the 4th of the 7th moneth, 1689.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends.
  Description:
  "It is desired that this may be read in all your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings." Text in two columns. Not in Wing.
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  His Majesty's most gracious letter to his government of the Massathusets [sic] Colony in New-England. ... Given at our Court at White-Hall the 12th day August 1689. ... Published by order of the governour & Council & representatives, for the satisfaction of His Majesties good subjects in New-England.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary). ; William III, King of England, 1650-1702. and Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694.
  Description:
  Authorizing the governor, Council, and representatives, who assumed administration of the government of the Massachusetts Colony in May 1689, to continue in that capacity until receipt of further directions.
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