Broadsides
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In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, December 5, 1774 : Resolved, That the proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the fifth of September.....
description - broadside 15.5 x 10 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1774 relation - Identifier - esl10120396 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43133
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In Provincial Congress, Cambridge, October 26, 1774 : Wereas in Consequence of the present unhappy disputes betwee Great-Britain and the Colonies, a formidable body of Troops with warlike Preparations of every Sort are already arrived...
description - broadside 17 x 14 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1774 relation - Identifier - esl10120393 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43132
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Boston, September 27, 1774 : Gentlemen, The committees of correspondence of this and several of the neighboring towns, having taken into consideration the vast importance of withholding from the troops now here ... every article excepting provisions necessary for their subsistence...
description - broadside 15.5 x 10 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1773 relation - Identifier - esl10120391 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43131
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Worcester June 13th 1774 : Gentlemen, many persons in this county conceiving that an agreement not to purchase the goods which are or shall be imported before the 31st of August next ...
description - broadside 10 x 15.5 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1774 relation - Identifier - esl10120389 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43130
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We the subscribers, inhabitants of the town of [ ] having taken into our serious consideration the precarious state of the liberties of North-America...
description - broadside 20 x 8 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1774 relation - Identifier - esl10120386 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43129
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Boston, May 12, 1774. Gentlemen, By the last advices from London we learn that an Act has been passed by the British Parliament for blocking up the Harbour of Boston...
description - broadside 12 x 7.5 in. fold. subject - Broadsides -- 1774 relation - Identifier - esl10120385 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43128
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Boston, December 1, 1773. At a meeting of the people of Boston and the neighboring towns at Faneuil-Hall ... on Monday the 29th of November 1773 ... for the purpose of consulting, advising and determining upon the most proper and effectual method to prevent the detestable tea sent out by the East India Company, part of which being just arrived in this harbour...
description - broadside 16.5 x 13 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1773 relation - Identifier - esl10120383 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43127
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Boston, December 1, 1773. Gentlemen, the Committee of Correspondence for this town had just prepared their Letter covering the Proceedings of the Town ... when a Ship arrived from London with Part of the East-India Company's Teas...
description - broadside 12 x 7.5 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1773 relation - Identifier - esl10120382 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43126
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In consequence of a conference with the committees of correspondence for the towns in the vicinity of Boston, November 23, 1773, and with their advice the following letter is addressed...
description - broadside 15 x 10.75 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1773 relation - Identifier - esl10120380 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43125
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Boston, April 9, 1773 : Sir, the Committee of Correspondence of this town have received the following Intelligence, communicated to them by a person of character in this Place. We congratulate you upon the Acquisiton of such respectable aid as the ancient and patriotic Province of Virginia, the earliest Resolves against the detestable Stamp-Act...
description - broadside 12 x 14 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1773 relation - Identifier - esl10120377 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43124
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Boston, March 30th, 1773 : by direction of the Committee of Correspondence for the town of Boston, I now transmit to you an attested Copy of the Proceedings of said Town on the 8th Instant...
description - broadside 16.5 x 13 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1773 relation - Identifier - esl10120376 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43123
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In the House of Representatives, December 27, 1755: Whereas a considrable Number of the Inhabitants of Nova-Scotia arrived here ... are in great Danger of suffering during this vigorous Season, without the Interpolation of the Court
description - broadside 12 x 8.5 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1755. relation - Identifier - esl10120370 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43122
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Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Nov. 19, 1754... Ordered, That the Assessors of the several Towns and districts within this Province, forth with send into the Secretary's Office the exact Number of Negro Slaves, both males and females, sixteen Years old and upward, that are within their respective Towns and Districts.
description - broadside 8 x 6.5 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1754 relation - Identifier - esl10120363 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43121
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At a Great and General court or Assembly for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, begun and held at Boston the 27th Day of May 1747... voted, that it be, and hereby is, strongly recommended to the several Churches and Congregations within this Province, to make an honourable Provision for the support of their Ministers, proportionable to the great Rise of the necessaries of Life since their Settlement.
description - broadside 8.5 x 13 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1747 relation - Identifier - esl10120361 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43120
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By the Honourable William Dummer, Esq. Lieutenant Governour & Commander In Chief in & over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England A Proclaimation whereas within some short time past many fires have broke out within the Town of Boston ... Which Fires have been dsignedly and industriously kindled by some villanous & desperate negroes, or other dissolute people...
description - broadside 12 x 8 in. subject - Broadsides -- 1723. relation - Identifier - esl10120356 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43119
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The record of the Massachusetts Republican Convention held at Worcester, September 16, 1879.
description - 4 p. broadside subject - Republican Party (Mass.). State Convention (1879) relation - Identifier - esl10120334 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43118
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Shipwreck! : a memorial account of the ... catastrophe of Capt. Samuel Soper and his crew, of the Brig Ardent from Boston, who were shipwrecked...28th of September, 1823
description - broadside subject - Soper, Samuel relation - Identifier - esl10120330 http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/43115