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 (Directions for beating-orders.) Sir,. BPL. LC. MHS A copy in the LC. is dated in Ms. April 17, 1755, and contains additions in MS. That in the мнS. 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 1040. Received of MHS the several Species of Pro visions, | Ammunition & Slop-Cloathing as mentioned in the Columns. 1041. [Oath of the Master of a AAS Archives, LXIV. 129. Different from the form of 1740. NEWLAND, JEREMIAH. t 1042. Verses Occasioned by the Earthquakes in the Month of November, 1755. | By Jeremiah Newland. See note to No. 1007, supra. MHS 1756 1043. The Assize of Bread. Archives, cxx. 132. † MA 1044. Boston, May 13, 1756. To be seen (for a short Time) at the House of Mr. William Fletcher, Merchant, New-Boston; G M By His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Efq; I Captain-General and Governour in Chief, in and over his Majefty's Province of the Maffachufests-Bay in New-England." A PROCLAMATION for a general FAST. T being our incumbent Duty to acknowledge GOD in all our Ways, and to commit all our Affairs, both publick and private, to his gracious Direction; and being bound, in a special Manner, to implore the Divine Blefling 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 Allembly, to appoint Thursday the Twentieth of March next, to be observed throughout this Province, as a Day of Falling and Prayer; Dereby calling upon Ministers and People religiously to folemnize the fame, by penitent Confeilion of their sins, and deep pumiliation for the growing Depravity and Diffolution of Manners amongst us, with tarneft Supplications to Almighty GOD, that he would be pleased to grant us the free Bardon of our sins, and that a general Amendment and Reformation may prevail in all Diders of Ben; and that he would remove the prefent Lokens and effens of bis righteous Displeasure against us, and prevent those moze fevere Judgments, Which our sins have deferbed, and which in the Alpects of Divine Providence we are warned to prepare foz; 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 Counfels and Administrations of his Government, for the general Brofperity of the Ringdoms and Dominions under his happy Rule; and particularly, for maintaining the just Rights of his Crown, and the Properties and pollellions of his good Subjeds, against the Invalions of foreign powers, and alfo for continuing and frengthening a general Peace among the Nations; That GOD would gracioully preferve and bless their Royal Highneffes the PRINCE of Wales, the PRINCESS DowAGER of Wales, the Duks, and the other Branches of the ROYAL FAMILY; Chat he would be favourable to our Land, and give his gracious Influence and Guidance to the Government of this and His Majeßty's other Colonies In NORTHAMERICA, that they may be led into fuch Measures (moze especially at this Conjundure) as may be effectual for their mutual Security and Defence; That GOD would in great Mercy preferve Peace upon our Sea-Coals and Inland Frontiers, and fruftrare all Deligns to disturb and violate the fame, so that no TWeapon formed against us may profper; That he would restore Health Where it is wanted, and continue it where it is enjoyed, That he would grant us fuitable Scafons in every part of the Dear for producing a plentiful Increase of the Fruits of the earth; That he would protect and fucceed the Navigation, Trade and Fishery of this Province, and give his Blefling to the clocks of our hands, and that he would commiferate the Cafe 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 map every where prevail, and the whole Earth be filled with his Glory: And all fervite Labour and Recreations are forbidden on the faid 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 GEORG E 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 Advice and Confent of the Council, J. Hillard, Secr'y. GOD Save the KING. W. Shirley. BOSTON: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council, 1755 No. 1014. By His EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SHI R L E Y, Esq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, and Vice-Admiral of the fame, and Major-General in His Majesty's Army. A PROCLAMATION. HEREAS the Indians of Norridgewock, Arrefagun 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 Submiffion unto His Majefty long fince made and frequently renewed, been guilty of the moft perfidious, barbarous and inhuman Murders of divers of h.s 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 fit to iffue this Proclamation, and to Declare the Indians of the Norridgewock, Ariefaguntacook, 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 Majefy's Territories of New-England, and in Alliance and Confederacy with the above-recited Tribes, the Penobscots only excepted, to be Ernemies, Rebels and Traitors 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 aforesaid Indians, the Penobscots excepted. 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 Eastern and Western Frontiers from the Twenty-fifth of this Month of June until the Twenty-fifth of November next; I the promile, Province-Treasury to all and any of the laid Forces, over and above their Bounty upon Enlißment, their wages and Surfiftence, the Premiums oz Bounties following, viz. For every Male Indian Prisoner above the Age of Twelve Years, that fhall be taken and brought to Bofton, Fifty Pounds. For every Male Indian Scalp, brought in as Evidence of their being killed, Forty Pounds. For every Female Indian Prifoner, taken and brought in as aforefaid, and for every Male Indian Prifoner under the Age of Twelve Years, taken and brought in as aforefaid, Twenty-five Pounds. 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 Bofton, 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. That Elaborate and Matchless Pile of Art, Called, The Microcosm, or the World in Miniature: [Printed by Edes and Gill in Queen Street.] 2 Am. Ant. Soc., Proceedings, xI. 465. AAS 1045. [Cut.] An Endeavour to animate and incourage our Soldiers, for the present Expedition [against Canada.] Signed M. B [Mather Byles?] Boston: Printed and Sold by Green and Russell, in Queen-street. HARVARD COLLEGE. 1046. Quaestiones. 1047. Theses. Evans, 7681. KENNEBECK, PROPRIETORS. 1048. Deed. Pp. 2. MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, PROVINCE. † PHS AAS. HC AAS. HC MHS 1049. [Royal arms.] An Act | For the better recruiting His Majesty's Forces on the Continent of America; and for the better | Regulation of the Army, and preventing of Desertion therein. Boston; New-England: Reprinted by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. pp. 4. Evans, 7677. AAS. MHS 1050. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, February 26, 1756. | Voted, That the following Establishment of Wages be made for the Officers and Soldiers going in the intended Expedition to Crown-Point. † LC 2 pp. 1051. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable Spencer Phips Esq; ...A Proclamation (prohibiting the exportation of provisions and warlike stores out of the Province). Dated January 20, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1756. AAS 1052. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; ...A Proclamation. (On deserters from the Fiftieth Regiment.) Dated, February 12, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour. 1756. MHS 1053. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; . . . | A Proclamation. (Encouragements to inlist in service |