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By the Great and General Court of the colony of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation : The frailty of human nature, the wants of individuals, and the numerous dangers which surround them, through the course of life, have in all ages, and in every country, impell'd them to form societies, and establish governments ...

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Corporate Authors:	Massachusetts. General Court, Gale (Firm)
Other Authors:	Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803 (Printer)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Subjects:	Massachusetts > Politics and government > 1775-1783. Electronic books. Broadsides.
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation. For a day of public thanksgiving : ... Thursday the 26th day of November next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight.
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and prayer : ... Thursday the twelfth day of December next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, this sixteenth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six. ...
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation, for a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the twentieth day of July next ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the twenty-seventh day of June ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty ...
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By the Council of the state of Massachusetts-Bay. A proclamation for a day of public humiliation and prayer : ... Thursday the fourth day of November next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, this fifteenth day of October ... one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine ...
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By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation : ... to appoint Thursday the eighth day of January next, to be observed as a day of publick humiliation and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-fourth day of December 1755 ...
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An act, in addition to an act, intitled An act for forming and regulating the Militia within the colony of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England: and for repealing all the laws heretofore-made for that purpose : Published by order of the General Assembly.
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A constitution and form of government for the state of Massachusetts-Bay : Agreed upon by the Convention of said state, February 28, 1778, to be laid before the several towns and plantations in said state, for their approbation or disapprobation.
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A plan of exercise, for the Militia of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay : extracted from the plan of discipline, for the Norfolk militia.
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A report of a Committee of Convention, of a form of government for the state of Massachusetts-Bay : Published for the inspection and perusal of the members.
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A letter relating to a medium of trade, in the province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
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Considerations on lowering the value of gold coins, within the province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
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By the Honourable His Majesty's Council, for the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England : A proclamation. Whereas the General Assembly have in their present session passed an act to prohibit the departure of all ships and vessels ... until the twentieth of April instant ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the eighteenth day of April 1757 ...
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A Letter to an eminent clergy-man in the Massachusett's Bay : Containing some just remarks, and necessary cautions, relating to publick affairs in that province. [Two lines of quotations].
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5, 1777 : That the happiness of mankind depends very much on the form and constitution of government they live under ... We do resolve, that it be, and hereby is recommended to the several towns ... to send members to the General Assembly ... to form such a constitution of government, as they shall judge best calculated to promote the happiness of this state ...
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A continuation of the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay : relative to the convening, holding and keeping the General Assembly at Harvard-College, in Cambridge. Published by order of the House of Representatives.
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A letter to the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Massachusetts-Bay, relating to their approaching election of Representatives : [Seven lines of quotation].
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State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 20, 1778 : Whereas Congress by their resolve of February 18th, 1778, has called upon this state for thirteen hundred of the Militia thereof ...
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Every day life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Resolves of the General Assembly of the state of Massachusetts-Bay : begun and held at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, on Wednesday the twenty-seventh day of May, being the last Wednesday in said month, anno domini, 1778, and thence continued by prorogation and adjournmen to Wednesday the 6th day of January, anno domini, 1779, and then met at Boston aforesaid.
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