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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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  Wednesday January I. 1701. A little before break-a-day at Boston of the Massachusets.
  Date of publication:
  1701
  

  Author(s):

  Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.
  Description:
  Verse, in six stanzas, honoring the new century. First line: Once more! Our God, vouchsafe to shine. By Samuel Sewall. His diary entry for Jan. 2, 1700/01, includes three stanzas; cf. The diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674-1729, ...
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  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, in the presence of God, solemnly and in good faith, covenant and engage with each other, 1st, that from henceforth we will suspend all commercial intercourse with the said island of Great Britain ... Witness our hands, June [blank] 1774.
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Boston Committee of Correspondence.
  Description:
  Form of a covenant drawn up by the Committee of Correspondence at Boston; cf. Matthews, Albert. "The solemn league and covenant, 1774," in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. XVIII, 1917, p. 103-122. ...
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  Verses occasioned by the earthquakes in the month of November, 1755. By Jeremiah Newland.
  Date of publication:
  1755
  

  Author(s):

  Newland, Jeremiah.
  Description:
  Verse, in forty-nine stanzas, concerning the earthquakes felt in Boston and other parts of New England. First line: O God of mercy thou art good. Text in three columns.
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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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  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.
  Description:
  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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  Upon the death of that aged, pious, sincere-hearted Christian, John Alden Esq: late magistrate of New-Plimouth colony, who dyed Sept 12th. 1687. Being about eighty nine years of age.
  Date of publication:
  1714
  

  Author(s):

  Cotton, John, 1640-1699.
  Description:
  Verse of eighty-eight lines; first line: The staffe of bread, and water eke the stay. Followed by: John Alden. Anagram end al on hi'. Signed at end: J.C. Attributed to John Cotton (1640-1699) by Evans. Dated [1687?] by ...
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  Upon Mr. Samuel Willard, his first coming into the assembly, and praying, after a long and dangerous fit of sickness; November 21. 1700. at 3. in the afternoon, being a day of publick thanksgiving. Mr. Pemberton's text, Psal. 118.27.
  Date of publication:
  1700
  

  Author(s):

  Sewall, Samuel, 1652-1730.
  Description:
  Verse in three stanzas; first lines: As Joseph let his brethren see Simeon both alive, and free. By Samuel Sewall; cf. his diary entry for Nov. 21, 1700. Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed area, including row of printers' ...
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  To the respectable public. Have a good end in view, and pursue it. Every friend of American freedom, rejoices to find a true and honest spirit of liberty prevailing in all ranks and degrees in this city. ...
  Date of publication:
  1774
  

  Author(s):

  Honest American.
  Description:
  Suggesting two possible methods of electing delegates to the Continental Congress. Signed: New-York, July 25, 1774. An honest American.
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  To the public. ... to be published by subscription ... The young mill-wright and miller's guide ...
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819.
  Description:
  Oliver Evans's 'The young mill-wright & miller's guide' was "printed for, and sold by the author" at Philadelphia in 1795. Text in two columns.
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