In the House of Representatives, November 24, 1776 :

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Massachusetts. General Court
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 14869.
Subjects:	Bounties, Military > Massachusetts. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, July 11, 1783 : Whereas it is necessary that the legislature should be furnished with an account of all bounties paid to soldiers during the war ... therefore, resolved, that the selectmen of the several towns ... collect the receipts, or other the best vouchers they can, of all bounties paid by their respective towns ...
Published: (1788)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, March 18, 1785 : Whereas it is represented to this court, that sundry persons have fraudulently obtained ... securitas printed] ...
Published: (1790)

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas His Majesty has been graciously pleased to order a number of troops, under the command of the Honourable Lieutenant-General St. Clair, to proceed from Great-Britain to Louisbourg ... for the further encouragement of all voluntiers that shall engage in this service, it is provided, that they shall receive thirty pounds in bills of credit ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the second day of June 1746. ...
Published: (1746)

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation for apprehending Jabez Allen, alias Mead : Whereas Jabez Allen alias Mead, who has been divers times convicted for the crime of horse-stealing ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the twenty-sixth day of October, 1742. ...
Published: (1742)

By the governor. A proclamation : Whereas the public seal of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay, abovesaid, was ... stolen from the Council-chamber in Boston ... I do hereby offer a reward of ten guineas ... Given at Boston, the third day of October, 1775 ...
Published: (1775)

By His Excellency, Samuel Shute, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas sundry felons transported from Great Britain have deserted and broke loose from their confinement on board ... Given under my hand at the Council chamber in Boston the twenty-fifth day of November, 1718. ...
Published: (1718)

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, February 5, 1760 : For the encouragement of five thousand able-bodied effective persons (inclusive of officers and exclusive of the provincial troops at Nova-Scotia and Louisbourg,) to inlist into the service of this province in the ensuing campaign for the total reduction of Canada; the Great and General Court of said province in their present session have voted the following encouragement and bounty ...
Published: (1760)

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas I have received information, that divers attempts have been made, by some evil-minded person or persons, to communicate the small-pox to the family of Benjamin Lynde, Esq; one of his majesty's Council for this province, by letters, containing the corrupt and infectious matter of the said distemper ... and by other ways and means ... and a reward of five hundred pounds old tenor, has been publickly offered by the said Benjamin Lynde ... Given under my hand at Concord, the twenty-eighth day of May 1752 ...
Published: (1752)

Advertisement. Stole or stray'd from the house of Mr. Thomas Larnard [as printed] of Watertown, on the 27th of November last, a large bay horse ...
by: Learned, Thomas, 1682-1729
Published: (1722)

Advertisement. Stole or stray'd from the house of Mr. Thomas Larnard [as printed] of Watertown, on the 27th of November last, a large bay horse.
by: Learned, Thomas, 1682-1729
Published: (1722)

By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas on the twenty-fifth day of March last ... the lieutenant governour ... issued a proclamation for discovering and apprehending the persons concerned in a dangerous and violent riot committed the night preceding, within the town of Boston ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the fourteenth day of April 1737. ...
Published: (1737)

A proclamation. By His Excellency the Honorable William Howe, major-general and commander in chief of all His Majesty's forces within the colonies laying on the Atlantic Ocean, from Nova-Scotia to West-Florida inclusive, &c. &c. &c : Whereas there is reason to believe, that many persons leaving this town by permission have, contrary to orders, conveyed away large sums in specie ...
Published: (1775)

Advertisement. In the House of Representatives, Feb. 21, 1765 : On a motion made and seconded, ordered ...
Published: (1765)

Virginia soldiers of 1776.
by: Burgess, Louis Alexander, 1864-
Published: (1973)

By the Council of the state of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation : Whereas this Council have received information of a ... riot happening in this town ... This Council have thought fit to issue their proclamation, hereby requiring ... bringing to justice all such persons offending ... And we do also hereby promise a reward of three hundred dollars ... Given under our hand, at the council chamber, in Boston, this ninth day of September, A.D. 1778.
Published: (1778)

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas the soldiers hereafter named and described, belonging to the regiment under the command of the Honble. General Phillips, on the seventh day of February instant deserted his majesty's Castle William ... Given at Boston the tenth day of February 1745 [new style, 1746]. ...
Published: (1746)

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas the soldiers, hereafter named and described, belonging to the regiment under the command of the Honourable Lieutenant-General Philipps, on the night following the 23d. day of April instant, deserted from the hospital upon the common in Boston ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twenty-sixth day of April 1746. ...
Published: (1746)

Advertisement : Ran away the 13th of this instant June, from his master, William Tilly of Boston, rope maker, a Carolina Indian man-servant ...
by: Tilly, William, approximately 1641-1717
Published: (1697)

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas a number of soldiers have deserted ... Given at Boston, the twelfth day of February ... 1756. ...
Published: (1756)

In Assembly, December 12, 1776 : Whereas there is a necessity of calling upon the Associators of Pennsylvania, at this inclement season, to assist in defending their country, threatened with instant invasion: Resolved, that over and above all encouragement heretofore offered, the following bounties be given to all volunteers ...
Published: (1776)

Stop thief! : Stolen from the subscriber, in Pittsfield, on Friday night last, a bay horse ... Charles Goodrich. Pittsfield, June 29, 1789. ... : Also, stolen the same night, from Zadock Hubbard, in said Pittsfield, a dark roan horse ... Zadock Hubbard, Pittsfield, June 29, 1789.
by: Goodrich, Charles, 1720-1815
Published: (1789)

Thirty dollars reward : Stolen out of the store of the subscriber, in Dudley, at sundry times, by one Ezra Holbrook, a large quantity of merchandize ... Whoever will take up the said Holbrook, and secure him, so that he may be brought to justice, shall have the above reward, paid by William Cargill.
by: Cargill, William, 1740?-1799
Published: (1787)

A word in season to all true lovers of their liberty and their country : both of which are now in the utmost danger of being forever lost. /
by: Freeman, Mylo
Published: (1748)

To all gentlemen volunteers, who prefer liberty to slavery, and are hearty friends to the grand American cause ...
Published: (1777)

Province of Massachusetts-Bay, June 6, 1760. By the Honorable Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; lieutenant governor and commander in chief : The General Assembly having voted that every effective man who ... shall inlist into His Majesty's service ... shall receive three pounds lawful money bounty ...
Published: (1760)

April 2. 1759. To Colonel [blank] : Sir, Inclosed you receive the bounty notes to the value of [blank] being in proportion to your quota of the levies. ...
Published: (1759)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, July 11, 1783 : Whereas it is necessary that the legislature should be furnished with an account of all bounties paid to soldiers during the war, in order that a charge thereof may be made against the United States: Therefore, resolved, that the selectmen ... collect the receipts ... of all bounties paid ... Resolved further, that the secretary ... collect an account of the dates of all the resolves ... for raising or detaching men ...
Published: (1783)

State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives. June 18, 1779 : Resolved, that the resolution of the 16th of April last, entitling each non-commissioned officer and soldier who shall inlist into the regiment of light-infantry ...
Published: (1779)

By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; ... A proclamation[.] : Whereas yesterday, towards evening, a great number of people unlawfully and riotously assembled ... I ... issue this proclamation, requiring all justices of peace, and all officers civil and military, to use their utmost endeavours for discovering, apprehending and bringing to justice all and every of the persons concerned ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the fifteenth day of August, 1765 ...
Published: (1765)

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas on the fifteenth day of this month of April divers evil-minded persons, armed with guns and swords, broke into the dwelling-house of one William Race ... Given at Boston, the twenty-eighth day of April 1755. ...
Published: (1755)

By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas towards evening on the 26th day of August instant, a great number of people unlawfully and riotously assembled ... I ... issue this proclamation, requiring all justices of peace, and all officers, civil and military, to use their utmost endeavours for discovering, apprehending and bringing to justice, all and every the persons concerned ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-eighth day of August, 1765 ...
Published: (1765)

By the Honourable William Dummer Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas within some short time past many fires have broke out within the town of Boston, and divers buildings have been thereby consumed; which fires have been designedly and industriously kindled by some villanous & desperate Negroes, or other dissolute people ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the fifteenth day of April, 1723. ...
Published: (1723)

Advertisement : Ran away yesterday morning from the house of Mrs. Clough, at the North End, an Irish fellow named William Haly, and robb'd his bedfellow Thomas Tubbs ...
by: Tubbs, Thomas
Published: (1753)

By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas I have received advice from William Lithgow, Esq; commander of Fort Halifax on Kennebeck River ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the 30th day of April, 1766 ...
Published: (1766)

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas there has been lately published and dispersed within this province, an anonymous paper in the form of a ballad, called, a Sad and deplorable lamentation, &c.--wherein are contained many expressions horribly prophane and impious ... and tend very much to weaken, if not subvert the happy constitution of this government: and whereas one Robert Howland of Duxbury, and one Fobes Little of Little-Compton, are informed against for industriously publishing and dispersing, and one or both of them strongly suspected to be the authors of the paper aforesaid ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the eighteenth day of April 1751 ...
Published: (1751)

By His Honour Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas the tribe of Penobscot Indians have repeatedly in a perfidious manner acted contrary to their solemn submission unto his majesty long since made and frequently renewed ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, this third day of November 1755 ...
Published: (1755)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, December 2, 1780 : Whereas the Congress of the United States have required of this commonwealth to supply the deficiency of our proportion of the Continental Army ... Resolved, that there be immediately raised ... to serve for three years or during the continuance of the present war ... four thousand two hundred and forty men. ...
Published: (1780)

An abstract from resolves containing the encouragement offered by the Continental Congress, and by the state of Massachusetts-Bay, to such as shall inlist into the Continental Army.
Published: (1777)

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas upon Tuesday the twenty-fifth of September last, an heinous riot was committed in the town of Bristol ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the eighteenth day of October, 1744. ...
Published: (1744)

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