ton: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to his Excellency | the Governor and the Honorable his Majesty's Council. 1763.

Royal arms, George III.

1302. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Francis Bernard, Esq;. A Proclamation for a public Thanksgiving. [December 8.] Dated, November 3, 1763. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable his | Majesty's Council. 1763.

Evans, 9436.

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1303. Pay warrant, issued by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council.

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[Royal arms.]

1304. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. The Honourable Harrison Gray, Esq; Treasurer. (Tax warrant). Dated, November 21, 1763.

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1305. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. | Francis Bernard, Esq;. Military commission, engraved. Dated, [March 3.] 176 [3.]

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1306. Omnibus Christi Fidelibus ad quos Literae Praesentes | pervenerunt. (Ship's papers.)

1307. (No. 5.) To

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| Your Province Tax. | Lawful Money. Your Town and County Rate. | Lawful Money. Dated, 1763.

PC

SAVAGE, SAMUEL PHILLIPS.

1308. [I] Promise to pay unto Samuel Phillips Savage, or Bearer. . . on Demand, being for Value received by a Premium of Insurance

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1309. A Valedicion, | For New-Year's Day. 1763. Signed "Philanthropos." † PHS This may not be a Boston issue, though the typographical ornaments would show it to be more than probably one.

1764

1310. Buy the | Truth, | and | sell it not. [Cut.]

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An issue of the poem was made in 1764 in Providence, by William Goddard, "by particular Request of a worthy honest old Gentleman, who is zealous for the Cause of Truth, and anxious for the Welfare of his Fellow-Creatures." A copy is in the John Carter Brown Library.

DORCHESTER.

1311. Tax bill.

HARVARD COLLEGE.

1312. Catalogus.

1313. Theses.

Evans, 9689, 9690.

GREAT BRITAIN.

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HC

1314. Two Acts of Parliament, | One passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of | King George the Second: | For Encouraging the Trade of the British Sugar | Colonies. | The other, passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third: For Granting certain Duties in the British Colonies. [Royal arms.] London: Printed by the King's Printer. | Boston, N. E. Re-printed by Richard Draper, Prin- | ter to His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable | His Majesty's Council of the Province of Massachusetts | Bay. M.DCC.LXIV. tAAS

pp. 459-477. Two editions of these pages of the Acts and Laws (1759 and additions) were issued, one without a title and the other as cited above. They also differ "in the captions on pages 459, 464, in the Royal arms on pages 459, 464, and in the arrangement of lines; and in one edition the W in 'Whereas,' the first word of the Act beginning on page 459, is a plain four-line letter, while in the other edition it is an ornamental initial letter." There are also variations in paging. In some copies pages 460, 461, and 462 are correctly given, in others they are 160, 161, 162, or 160, 161, 164; also pages 464-479 are in some correctly numbered, in others, they are misnumbered 469 to 477, and in others pages 470, 473, 474 appear as 670, 463, 674. See Ford-Matthews, Bibliography of the Laws of Massachusetts-Bay, 454. Evans, 9682.

1315. An Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, | in Cambridge; with the Loss sustained thereby. Dated, January 25, 1764. Boston: Printed by R. and S. Draper. | 1764. BPL. MHS

KENNEBECK PROPRIETORS.

1316. Deed.

Pp. 2.

MASSACHUSETTS-BAY PROVINCE.

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1317. A Bill, Now pending in the House of Representatives, and published by their Order, for the Consideration of the several Towns in this Province. | A Bill intituled, An Act for regulating the Whale Fishery.

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pp. 3. See Journal of the House of Representatives, November 3, 1764. 1318. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to April 18). Dated, March 10, 1764.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, March 15, 1764.

1319. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Francis Bernard,
Esq;. A Proclamation for a General Fast, (April 12.)
Dated, March 14, 1764. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper,
Printer to his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable his
Majesty's Council. 1764.

Evans, 9729.

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1320. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proclamation For proroguing the General Court (to April 25). Dated, March 31, 1764.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, April 5, 1764.

1321. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to September 5). Dated, July 9, 1764.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, July 12, 1764.

1322. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to October 10). Dated, August 15, 1764.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, August 16, 1764.

1323. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proclamation (on enforcing law on trading with the Indians.) Dated, August 16, 1764.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, August 23, 1764.

1324. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq;

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An Account of the Fire at Harvard-College,

in Cambridge; with the Lofs fuftained thereby.

CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 25. 1764

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AST night HARVARD COLLEGE, fuffered the most ruinous lofs it ever met with fince its foundation. In the middle of a very tempeftuous night, a fevere cold ftorm of snow attended with high wind, we were awaked by the alarmt of fire. Harvard Hall, the only one of our ancient buildings which ftill remained, and the repofitory of our most valuable treasures, the public LIBRARY and Philofophical APPARATUS, was feen in flames. As it was a time of vacation, in which the ftudents were all difperfed, not a single perfon was left in any of the Colleges except two or three in that part of Meffaclafets molt diftant from Harvard, where the fire could not be perceived till the whole furrounding air began to be illuminated by it: When it was difcovered from the town, it had rifen to a degree of violence that defied all oppofition. It is conjectured to have begun in a beam under the hearth in the library, where a fire had been kept for the ufe of the General Court, now refiding and fitting here, by reafon of the Small-Pox at Ballon: from thence it burft out into the Libra ry. The books eafily fubmitted to the fury of the flame, which with a rapid and irrefiftable progrefs made its way into the Apparatus Chamber, and spread thro' the whole building. In a very fhort time, this venerable Monument of the Piety of our Ancestors was turn'd into an heap of ruins. The other Colleges, Stoughton Hall and Mafa chusetts-Hall, were in the utmoft hazard of tharing the fame fate. The wind driving the flaming cinders directly upon their roofs, they blazed out feveral dues in different pifces, nor could they have been faved by all the help the Town could afford, had it not been for the affiftance of the Gentlemen of the General Court, among whom his Excellency the Governor was very active; who, notwithstanding the extreme rigor of the feafon, exerted themselves in fupplying the town Engine with water, which they were obliged to fetch at laft from a diftante, two of the College pumps being then rendered ufelefs. Even the new and beautiful Hollis Hall, though it was on the windward fide, hardly efcaped. It flood fo near to Harvard, that the flaines actually feized it, and, if they had not been immediately fuppreffed, must have carried it.

But by the Bleffing of God on the vigorous efforts of the affiftants, the ruin was confined to Harvard Hall, and there, befides the deftruction of the private property of thofe who had chambers in it, the public lols is very great, perhaps, irreparable. The Library and the Apparatus, which for many years had been growing, and were now judged to be the best furnished in America, are annihilated. But to give the public a more diftinct idea of the lofs, we shall exhibit a fummary view of the general contents of each, as far as we can, on a fudden, recollect them.

Of the LIBRARY.

IT contained-The Holy Scriptures in almost all languages, with the most valuable Expofitors and Commentators, ancient and modern-The whole Library of the late learned Dr. Lightfoot, which at his death he bequeathed to this College, and contained the Targuins, Talauds, Rabbins, Polygot, and other valuable tracts relative to oriental literature, which is taught here: The library of the late eminent Dr. Theophilus Gale:

• Harvard Hall, 42 feet broad, 97 long, and four to rics high, was founded A. D. 1672.

-All the Fathers, Greek and Latin, in their
best editions. A great number of trafts in
defence of revealed religion, wrote by the most
mafterly hands, in the laft and prefent century-
Sermons of the most celebrated English divices,
both of the established national church and pro-
teftant diffenters :-Tracts upon all the branches
of polemic divinity The donation of the vene-
rable Society for propagating the Gofpel in foreign
parts, confifting of a great many volumes of tracts
against Popery, published in the Reigns of Charles
11. and James II. the Boylean lectures, and other
the molt efteemed English fermons :-A valua
b'e collection of modern theological treatifes, pre-
fented by the Right Rev. Dr. Sherlock, late Lord
Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Hales, F.R. S.
and Dr. Wilfon of London :-A vaft number of
philological trafts, containing the rudiments of al-
moft all languages, ancient and modern :-The
Hebrew, Greek and Roman antiquities.-The
Greek and Roman Claffics, prefented by the late
excellent and catholic-fpirited Bilhop Berkeley;
most of them the best editions:-A large Collec-
tion of History and biographical tracts, ancient and
modern-Differtations on various Political fubjects

The Tranfictions of the Royal Society, Aca-
demy of Sciences in France, Acta Eruditorum,"
Mifcellanea curiofa, the works of Boyle and New-
ton, with a great variety of other mathematical
and philofophical treatifes.-A collection of the
moft approved Medical Authors, chielly prefented.
by Mr. James, of the infind of Jamaica; to which
Dr. Mead and other Gentlemen made very
confiderable additions): Alfe Anatomical cuts
and two compleat Stons of different fexes.
This collection would have been very ferviceable
to a Profeffor of Phyfic and Anatomy, when the
revenues of the College fhould have been fuffici-
ent to fubfift a gentleman in this character.-A
few ancient and valuable Manufcripts in different
languages.-A pair of excellent new Globes of the
largeft fize, prefented by Andrew Oliver, jun.
Efq-A variety of Curiofities natural and artifi-
cal, both of American and foreign produce-A
font of Greek types (which, as we had not yet
a printing office, was repofited in the library) pre-
fented by our great benefactor the late worthy
Thomas Hollie, Efq; of London; whofe picture,
as large as the life, and inflitutions for two Pro-
fefforfhips and ten Scholarships, perifhed in the
flames. Some of the most confiderable addi-
tions that had been made of late years to the libra-
ry, came from other branches of this generous
Family.

The library contained above five thousand volumes, all which were confumed, except a few books in the hands of the members of the houfe; and two donations, one made by our late honora ble Lieutenant Governor Dummer, to the value of 501. fterling the other of 56 volumes, by the prefent worthy Thomas Hollis, Efq, F. R. S. of London, to whom we have been annually obliged for valuable additions to our late library: Which donations, being but lately received, had not the proper boxes prepared for them; and fo escaped the general ruin.

As the library records are burnt, no doubt fome valuable benefactions have been omitted in this ac. count, which was drawn up only by memory.

Of the APPARATUS. WHEN the late worthy THOMAS HOLLIS, Efq; of London founded a Profefforship of Mathematics and Philofophy in Harvard-College, he fent a fine Apparatus for Experimental Philofophy in its feveral Branches.

No. 1315.

Under the head of Mechanics, there were machines for experiments of falling bodies, of the centre of gravity, and of centrifugal forces :-the feveral mechanical powers, balances of different forts, levers, pullies, axes in peritrochio, wedges, compound engines; with curious models of each. in brafs.

In Hydreftatics, very nice balances, jars and bottles of various fizes fitted with brass caps, veffels for proving the grand hydrostatic Paradox, fiphons, g'afs models of pumps, hydrostatic balance, &c.

In Pneumatics, there was a number of different tubes for the Torricellian experiment, a large double-barrell'd Air-pump, with a great variety of receivers of different fizes and fhapes; fyringes, exhaufting and condensing; Barometer, Thermometer-with many other articles.

In Optics, there were feveral forts of mirrors, concave, convex, cylindric, Lenfes of different foci; inftruments for proving the fundamental law of refraction; Prifms, with the whole apparatus for the Newtonian theory of light and colors; the camera obfcura, &c.

And a variety of inftruments for miscellaneous purposes.

THE following articles were afterwards fent us by Mr. Thomas Hollis, Nephew to that generous Gentleman, viz, an Orrery, an armillary Sphere, and a box of Microfcopes; all of exquifite workmanship.

For Afrenony, we had before been fupplied with Telefcapes of differeat lengths; one of 24 feet; and a brass Quadrant of 2 tretyradius. carrying a Telefcope of a greater length, which formerly belonged to the celebrated Dr. Halley. We had alfo the most tf.ful inftruments for Dialling and for Surveying, a brafs femicircle, with plain fights and magnetic needle. Alf, a curious Telefcope, with a complete apparatus for taking the difference of Level; lately prefented by Christopher Kilby, Efq;

Many very valuable additions have of late years been made to this apparatus by feveral generous benefactors, whom it would be ingratitude not to commemorate here, as no veftiges of their donations remain. We are under obligation to mention particularly, the late Sir Peter Warren, Knt. Sir Henry Frankland, Bart. Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Efq, Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia; Thomas Hancock, Ef, James Bowdoin, Eli Ezekirl Goldthwait, Efq; John Hancock, A. M. of Bolton, and Mr. Gilbert Harrifon of London, Merchant. From thefe Gentlemen we received fine reflecting Telescopes of different magnifying powers; and adapted to different obfervations; Microfcopes of the feveral furts now in ufe; Hadley's Quadrant fitted in a new manner; a nice Variation Compats, and Dipping needie; with inftruments for the feveral magnetical and electri cal experiments-all new, and of excellent workmanship.ALL DESTROYED!

Cambridge, Jan. 26. 1764. As the Genetal Aflembly have this day chearfully and unanimouf ly voted to rebuild Harvard Hall, it encourages us to hope, that the LIBRARY and APPARATUS will alfo be repaired by the private munificence of thofe who with well to America, have a regard for NewEngland, and know the importance of literature to the Church and State

BOSTON: PAINTED BY R. AND S. DRAPER:

1764.