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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. ...

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher)
Other Authors:	Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 49212.
Subjects:	Bounties > Massachusetts. Riots > Massachusetts > Boston. Broadsides.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

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