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. ...

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 Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas information has been given to this government, that Samuel Ball and Benjamin Ledyke alias Benjamin Dite, who were apprehended for the murther of an Indian at Wiscasset ... were in the town of Falmouth, in a riotous and outragious manner ... rescued out of the hands of the said officer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-eighth day of December 1749 ...

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. ...

Geologic map of the Bristol quadrangle and vicinity, Rhode Island-Massachusetts : surficial geology /
by: Smith, J. Hiram (James Hiram), 1916-
Published: (1955)

Geologic map of the Bristol quadrangle and vicinity, Rhode Island-Massachusetts : bedrock geology /
by: Quinn, Alonzo W. (Alonzo Wallace), 1899-1977
Published: (1954)

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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]. ...

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. ...

Strictures on a pamphlet entitled, "An impartial history of the late riots at Bristol" /
Published: (1793)

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. ...

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

The Bristol riots : their causes, progress, and consequences /
by: Eagles, John, 1783-1855
Published: (1832)

An Impartial history of the late riots at Bristol.

Geologic map and section of the Pawtucket quadrangle, Rhode Island-Massachusetts : bedrock geology /
Published: (1949)

Bristol riots, 1831 : report of the Commissioners Appointed Under the Bristol Damages Compensation Act, and statement of actions for damages, and proceedings had therein under that act, with their general results.
Published: (1835)

Geologic map of the Pawtucket quadrangle, Rhode Island-Massachusetts : surficial geology /
by: Chute, Newton E. (Newton Earl), 1907-1987
Published: (1949)

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 ...

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] ...

In the wake of war : violence, identity, and cultural change in Puritan Massachusetts, 1676-1713 /
by: Heaton, Charles
Published: (2012)

An act passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England : begun and held at Boston upon Wednesday the thirtieth day of May 1750. And continued by prorogations to Thursday the tenth of January following.

Some remarks on the settlement of the line, and removal of the courts from Bristol to Taunton.
Published: (1747)

1990 census of population and housing.
Published: (1993)

White-Lion Club, late riot and dock tax : an address to the public, wherein these alarming and disgraceful topics are discussed /
by: Lee, Thomas
Published: (1807)

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 ...

The houses of Bristol, Rhode Island ... /
by: Burleigh, William J.

In the House of Representatives, November 24, 1776 : Whereas the resolve of the Court of the nineteenth of October last, so far as relates to the additional encouragement to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers, has been found to be attended with inconveniences, and the mode of the said encouragement has been disapproved by Congress ...

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)

The Bristol riots of 1831 and social reform in Britain /
by: Caple, Jeremy
Published: (1990)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By Pis [as printed] Excellency Samuel Adams, Esq. governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, a proclamation : Whereas ... persons unknown, the last evening, and several evenings before, did riotously and tumultuously assemble in the town of Boston ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-seventh day of June, A.D. 1794 ...

The by-laws and catalogue of the Potter Library Company, in the town of Bristol, and state of Rhode-Island.

An impartial history of the late disturbances in Bristol; interspersed with occasional remarks : to which are added, a list of the killed, with the verdicts returned by the coroners' inquests, and a list of the wounded, with their ages, descriptions of their wounds, &c. /
by: Rose, John, of Bristol

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

Boston riots : three centuries of social violence /
by: Tager, Jack
Published: (2001)

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)