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1667. Friends, Brethren, Countrymen, That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in this harbor. (Call to a meeting at Faneuil Hall, this day [November 29.])

In Newell's Diary, in 1 Proceedings, xv. 345. Evans, 12774.

HARVARD COLLEGE.

1668. Catalogus.

Evans, 12804.

1669. Theses.

Evans, 12806.

MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, PROVINCE.

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1670. Boston, February 18, 1773. | On Tuesday last His Excellency the Governor was pleased to send a Message by the Secretary to the | Honorable House of Representatives directing their | Attendance forthwith in the Council Chamber. The House went up accordingly, and . . . he made the following Speech to both Houses.

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Printed on 2 leaves, but forming 2 pp. It is, in fact, the second and third pages of the Massachusetts Gazette of that date. Evans, 12854. 1671. Massachusets- | Bay. [Royal arms.] By the Governor. A Proclamation | For a General Fast. [April 15.] Dated, March 10, 1773. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governor, and the Honorable His Majesty's Council. 1773.

Evans, 12852.

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1672. Province of Massachusetts-Bay. By the Governor. A Proclamation For Dissolving the General Court. Dated April 8, 1773.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, April 8, 1773.

1673. Province of Massachusets-Bay. By the Governor. A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to November 3.) Dated, August 14, 1773.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, August 19, 1773.

1674. Province of Massachusets-Bay. By the Governor. A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court. Dated, October 9, 1773.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, October 14, 1773.

1675. Massachusets- | Bay. [Royal arms.] By the Governor. A Proclamation | For a Publick Thanksgiving. [November 25.] Dated, October 28, 1773. Boston: Printed by Richard

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Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governor, and the | Honorable His Majesty's Council, 1773.

Evans, 12853.

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1676. Province of Massachusets-Bay. By the Governor. A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to January 26, 1774). Dated, December 21, 1773.

Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, December 23, 1773.

1677. The Court of Sessions have appointed Thursday to grant Licences on Spirituous Liquors:

The form used was for 1769, with dates altered in ink.

NICKERSON, ANSELL.

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1678. [Cut.] The following | Circumstances | Relating to the Famous | Ansell Nickerson, | And concerning the Boy, (mentioned in the Trial to be carried away by the Pirates) who, they say, is arrived at Martha's-Vineyard: Also, the Testimony of Two Men, belonging to Seaguin, | who were robbed by a Top-sail Schooner with four Boats, on the Fourteenth of November: To | which is added, the Declaration of a Justice of the Peace, respecting Mr. Nickerson's Innocence of the Murder and Robbery in Nov. All which particulars have transpired since his Trial and Acquittal. † PHS

1679. [Cuts.] The | Particulars | Of the late melancholly and shocking Tragedy, Which happened at Salem, near Boston, on Thursday, the 17th Day of June, 1773.

Evans, 12918. See 1690 and 1691, infra.

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1680. [Cuts.] A Funeral Elegy, | occasioned by the | Tragedy, | At Salem, near Boston, on Thursday Afternoon, the 17th of

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June, 1773, at which Time the 10 following Persons were drowned. † Lc. BPL

Evans, 12777.

Awake, my Muse, and tune the Song
To harp a doleful Sound,

1681. [Another issue.] Printed and Sold by E. Russell, next the Cornfield, Union Street, near the Market. (Pr. 3. Cop.) EI The same coffins as on "The Particulars." Evans, 12777. Reprint also.

PEIRCE, JOSEPH.

1682. Joseph Peirce, | At his Shop, making the Corner, northerly, of the Old Brick Meeting- | House, and fronting the West End of the Town-House, Boston. [Printed by Mills and Hicks.]

1683. A Petition of the People of Halifax.

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Halifax was one of the towns granted by New Hampshire but was claimed by New York; it joined Coleraine, Mass. The sheet may be a Massachusetts or a New York issue.

1684. Proposals | For Re-printing by Subscription, | the | FortRoyal of the Scriptures; or, a [Vade-Mecum Concordance, | containing | An Hundred Heads of Scripture: | wherein | All (even the weaker Sort of Christians) may readily find most of the Rarities in the Word of God. | By an Admirer of the Word. | . Subscriptions are taken in by William M'Alpine, the undertaker, Printer, in Marlborough-Street, Boston. † NYPL

RELIEF SOCIETY, BOSTON.

1685. [Cut and motto.] Rules and Orders | for the | Relief Society, Instituted at Boston, March 5th, Annoque Domini, 1773. Printed by J. Boyles.

RICHARDSON, JOHN.

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1686. [Cut.] Inhuman Cruelty: | Or Villany Detected. | Being a true Relation of the most unheard-of, cruel and barberous Intended Murder of a Bastard Child belonging to | John and Ann Richardson, of Boston, who confined it in a small Room, with scarce any Victuals, or | Cloathing to cover it from the cold or rain, which beat into it, for which Crime they were both of them Sen- | tenc'd to set on the Gallows, with a rope round their Necks, &c. [Draper.] † PHS

The cut is the same as that on "A Solemn Farewell to Levi Ames." No. 1646, supra.

ROXBURY.

1687. An Address of Freeholders of the First Precinct in Roxbury in relation to being set off to the third Precinct, . . . AAS With copy of a petition sent to the General Court in 1743. 1688. Whereas the Great and General Court | were pleased a their last Session to ap- point a Committee, to whom they re- ferr'd the Petition of several who had | petitioned to be set off from the first to the third Precinct in Roxbury, . . . Presented, January 12, 1773. † AAS

SALEM.

1689. Just published, and to be sold by the Printers of this Paper, Rules For Regulating Salem Hospital. *** The Subscribers to the Hospital are desired to call at the Printing-Office for Copies of the Rules. - Advertisement in the Essex Gazette, December 21, 1773.

1690. Salem, June 25, 1773. | Verses on the sudden and awful Death of Mrs. Rebecca | Giles, Mr. Paul Kimball and his Wife, Mrs. Desire Holman, Mr. William Ward and his Wife, Miss Esther Masury, Mr. Nathaniel Diggadon and his Wife, and Mrs. Sarah Becket, all of Salem, who were drowned | all together off this Harbour on the 17th Day of June, 1773. Boston: Printed and Sold in Milk-Street. [John Kneeland.]

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Mr. William... Wife, and . ... Harbour on |
See 1679 and 1680, supra.

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SMITH, ELIZABETH, and JOHN SENNET.
1692. [Cut.] A Dialogue | between | Elizabeth Smith, and
John Sennet, | Who were convicted before his Majesty's
Superior Court, Elizabeth Smith | For Thievery, and John
Sennet for Beastiality! and each sentenced to | Set upon the
Gallows for the space of one Hour, with a Rope round their |
Necks Elizabeth Smith to receive Twenty Stripes upon her
naked Back, | And John Sennet, Thirty-nine. [Draper.] † PHS
The cut is the same as that on "A Solemn Farewell to Levi Ames."
No. 1646, supra.

SPENCER, ARTHUR.

1693. To the Public. | Mr. Arthur Spencer, at present an inhabitant of Boston, formerly Surgeon's Mate of his Majesty's | Ship Glasgow.

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1694. To the Freemen of this and the neighbouring Towns:

Gentlemen! You are desired to meet at the Liberty-Tree this Day at 12 o'clock at noon, then and there to hear the Persons to whom the Tea shipped by the E. I. Company is consigned, make a public resignation of their Offices . . . Signed, O. C. Sec'y. Boston, Nov. 3, 1773.

Evans, 12691. "A number of printed hand [bills] were pasted up at the corner of most of the streets in town, desiring all the sons of freedom to meet at the Tree of Liberty, on Wednesday, - signed 'O. C.””. Thomas Newell's Diary, Proceedings, xv. 343.

In the Dartmouth Papers, II. 193, are copies of an impersonal letter signed O. C. and addressed to Thomas and Elisha Hutchinson, November 2, and the above printed notification of November 3.

1695. Tradesmen's | Protest | against the | Proceedings of the Merchants. Relative to the New Importation of Tea. Dated, November 3, 1773. Printed by E. Russell, next the Cornfield, Union-Street.

Evans, 13046.

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1696. New-Year's Verses, | Addressed to the Customers of the Massachusetts-Gazette, &c.

1697.

A New Year's Wish is grown so common,
I fear, Good Friends you will not like it,

1774

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An Address to New-England: | written by | A Daughter of Liberty. Boston: Printed and Sold by Nathaneal Coverly near Christ-Church, North-End, MDCCLXXIV

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Mourn, mourn O Heavens, and thou O Earth bewail,
And weep ye Saints, 'till all your Spirits fail!

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1698. Addresses &c. to the late Governor Hutchinson. [Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, 1774.]

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1699. The following is a true List of those Persons who signed an Address to the late Governor Hutchinson, on | his Departure for England, with their several Occupations, Shops, Stores or Places of Abode, and is Published that every Friend to his Country may know who is Assisting to carry the execrable Purposes of the British Administration into Execution.

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pp. 2. Promises a "next Edition" with additions. Evans, 13279. 1700. Whereas a great Number of People have express'd a Desire that the Names of the Addressers to the late Gov. Hutchinson, and Protesters against the solemn League and

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