June 9, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governor, & Council. Evans, 7477. MHS 1020. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; ...A Proclamation. (Declaring the Indians of the Norridgewock, Arresaguntacook, Weweenock and St. John's tribes to be enemies.) Dated, June 12, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and the Honourable His Majesty's Council. 1755. MHS 1021. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; . . . | A Proclamation. (Publishing encouragements offered to such as should penetrate into the Indian country in order to captivate and kill the enemy Indians.) Dated, June 18, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and the Honourable His Majesty's Council. 1755. MHS 1022. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; | A Proclamation for a general Fast. [August 28.] Dated, August 13, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. On defeat of General Braddock. Evans, 7478. MHS 1023. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; A Proclamation [ for Proroguing the General Assembly [to September 24.] Dated, August 22, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. MHS 1024. [Royal Seal.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A Proclamation | for Convening the Great and General Court or Assembly [September 5.] Dated, September 1, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. 1025. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ...A Proclamation. (Encouragements to inlist in expedition against Crown Point.) Dated, September 9, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the LieutenantGovernour and Council. 1755. BPL. MHS 1026. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; |... | A Proclamation. (Requiring all who received the bounty or were impressed for the expedition against Crown Point to repair to the army.) Dated, October 29, 1755. Bos ton: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. MHS 1027. [Royal arms.] 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 (offering a bounty for captured Indians or for the scalps of killed Indians). Dated, November 3, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. 2 Am. Ant. Soc. Proceedings, XI. 465. AAS. MHS 1028. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ...A Proclamation | for a publick Thanksgiving. [December, 4.] Dated, November 4, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. Evans, 7479. BA. MHS 1029. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ... | A Proclamation. (On reward for captives or scalps of Penobscot Indians.) Dated, November 13, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the LieutenantGovernour and Council. 1755. MHS 1030. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; A Proclamation. (Embargo on export of provisions or warlike stores.) Dated, November 28, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. MHS 1031. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; A Proclamation (appointing January 8 as a day of public humiliation and Prayer.) Dated, December 24, 1755. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1755. Evans, 7480. BPL. MHS 1032. By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq;. . . | To Sir, . .. (Directions for beating-orders.) BPL. LC. MHS A copy in the LC. is dated in Ms. April 17, 1755, and contains additions in MS. That in the MHS. is a printer's proof. 1033. Province of the | Massachusetts-Bay, | By His Excellency the Governour. Power to administer to officers in expedition against Crown Point, the "Oaths appointed by Act of Parliament to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy." Dated, 1755, and in Ms. June 12. MHS 1034. Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy: | And Declaration. MHS 1035. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. | By His Honour | Spencer Phips, Esq;. . . | Whereas the Great and General Court or Assembly of said Province have agreed and voted (for reinforcing the Army destined to Crown-Point). Dated, September [8], 1755. MHS 1036. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. | By His Honour the Lieutenant Governour. | To Greeting. Whereas the Great and General Court or Assembly of | said Province, have by their vote of the 8th Instant, desired me to give Orders to impress a sufficient Number of Men . . . Dated, September 19, 1755. BPL 1037. Province of the | Massachusetts- Bay, ss. [Royal arms.] Harrison Gray, Esq; | Treasurer... (Tax warrant.) Dated, September 12, [1755.] 1038. Military commission [William Shirley] EI AAS Commission to | of the Massaand Confidence 1039. I do acknowledge to have | voluntarily inlisted myself as a Private Soldier, to serve his Majesty King in . . . with certificate. 1040. Received of MHS the several Species of Pro visions, Ammunition & Slop-Cloathing as mentioned in the Columns. AAS 1041. [Oath of the Master of a built Ship.] MA Archives, LXIV. 129. Different from the form of 1740. NEWLAND, JEREMIAH. 1042. Verses Occasioned by the Earthquakes in the Month of November, 1755. | By Jeremiah Newland. MHS See note to No. 1007, supra. 1756 1043. The Assize of Bread. † MA Archives, cxx. 132. 1044. Boston, May 13, 1756. To be seen (for a short Time) at the House of Mr. William Fletcher, Merchant, New-Boston; By His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Efq; Captain-General and Governour in Chief, in and over his Majefty's Province of the Maffac bufettt-Bay in New-England.” A PROCLAMATION for a general FAST. +0+0+ T being our incumbent Duty to acknowledge GOD in all our Ways, and to commit all our Affair, both publick and private, to his gracious Direction; and being bound, in a fpecial Manner, to implore the Divine Bluffing when we are engaged in Concerns of great Importance; Have therefore thought it, with the Advice of His Majefty's Council, and at the Defire of the Affembly, to appoint Thursday the Twentieth of March next, to be observed throughout this Province, as a Day of Falling and Prayer; hereby calling upon Ministers and people religiously to folemnize the fame, by penitent Confellion of their ins, and deep Humiliation for the growing Depravity and Diflolution of Manners amongst us, with tarneft Supplications to Almighty GOD, that he would be pleased to grant us the free Pardon of our ins, and that a general Amendment and Reformation may prevail in all Orders of Gen; and that he would remove the prefent Tokens and effeds of his righteous Difpleasure against us, and prevent those moze fevere Judgments, Which our ins have deferbed, and which in the Alpeas of Divine Providence we are warned to prepare for, and alfo, that it would please our merciful GOD to confer upon us all needful Bleflings; Particularly, that he would long continue the precious Life of our Sovereign Lord the KING, and direct and profper the Counsels and Administrations of his Government, for the general profperity of the Kingdoms and Dominions under his happy Rule, and particularly, for maintaining the juft Rights of his Crowo, and the Properties and Polleflions of his good Subjects, against the Inbalions of foreign powers, and allo for continuing and frengthening a general Peace among the Nations That GOD would graciously preserve and bless their Royal Highnefies the PRINCE of Wales, the PRINCESS DOWAGER of Wales, the Duxs, and the other Branches of the ROYAL FAMILY; That he would be favourable to our Land, and gibe his gracious Influence and Guidance to the Government of this and his Majesty's other Colonies in NORTHAMERICA, that they may be led into fuch Measures (mote elpecially at this Conjungure) as may be effectual for their mutual Security and Lefence; That GOD would in great ercy preserve Peace upon our Dea-Loads and Inland Frontiers, and frustrate all Deligns to disturb and violate the fame, so that no Ceapon formed against us may profper; That he would refioze Health where it is wanted, and continue it where it is enjoyed. That be bould grant us fuitable Seafons in every Part of the Dear fo: producing a plentiful Increase of the Fruits of the Earth That he would protect and fncceed the Navigation, Trade and Fishery of this Province, and give his Bleffing to the clocks of our hands; and that he would commiferate the Tale of our Captives and restore their Liberty, And, above all, That he would defend and spread the Holy Religion of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, and that the Power of Godliness may every where prevail, and the whole Earth be filled with his Glory : And all fervite Labour and Recreations are forbidden on the laid Day. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston the Twenty-feventh Day of February 1755, in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. By Order of the Governour, with the W. Shirley. BOSTON: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council, 1755 No. 1014. By His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Efq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His Majefty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, and Vice-Admiral of the fame, and Major-General in His Majefty's Army. A PROCLAMATION. HEREAS the Indians of Norridgewock, Arresagun a ook, Weweenock and St. John's Tribes, and the Indians of the other Tribes inhabiting in the Eastern and Northern Parts of His Majefty's Territories of New-England, the Penobscot Tribe only excepted, have, contrary to their folemn Submiflion unto His Majefty long fince made and frequently renewed, been guilty of the moft perfidious, barbarous and inhuman Murders of divers of his Majefty's English Subjects; and have abftained from all Commerce and Correfpondence with His Majefty's faid Subjects for many Months paft; and the faid Indians have fully discovered an inimical, traiterious and rebellious Intention and Difpofition; I have therefore thought it to issue this Proclamation, and to Declare the Indians of the Norridgewock, Arrelaguntacook, Weweenock and St. John's Tribes, and the Indians of the other Tribes new oz late inhabiting in the Eastern and Noithren Parts of his Majesty's Territories of New-England, and in Alliance and Confederacy with the above recited Tribes, the Penobscots only excepted, to be Enemies, Rebels and Traito25 to his Moft Sacred Majefty: And I do hereby require his Majelty's utjeas of this Province to embrace all Oppoztunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and destroying all and any of the afozefaid Indians, the Penobscots creepied. AND WHEREAS the General Court of this Province have voted, That a Bounty or Encouragement be granted and allowed to be paid out of the Publick-Treafury to the marching Army that fhall be employed for the Defence of the Eaftern and Western Frontiers from the Twenty-fifth of this Month of June until the Twenty-fifth of November next ; Habe thought fit to publish the fame; and I do hereby promile, That there shall be paid out of the I province, Treasury to all and any of the laid Forces, ober and above their Bounty upon Enliliment, their Gulages and Sutlißience, the Premiums 02 Bounties following, viz. For every For every Female Indian Prifoner, taken and brought in as aforefaid, and for every Male Indian Prisoner under the Age of For every Scalp of fuch Female Indian or Male Indian under Twelve Years of Age, brought as Evidence of their being killed, as aforefaid, Twenty Pounds. GIVEN under my Hand at Bolton, in the Province aforefaid, this Twelfth Day of June, 1755, and in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GOD, of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. |