At a Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the 23d day of August, anno, 1721. : ... Whereas many persons in the town of Boston, are now visited with the small-pox .. Resolved, that no bells shall be tolled for the burial of persons that may die of that or any other distemper, but what the select-men of the town of Boston shall order and direct ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts. General Court.

Contributor:

Boston (Mass.). Selectmen.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2202.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smallpox--Law and legislation--Massachusetts.

Smallpox.

Burial--Massachusetts--Boston.

Burial.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Massachusetts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Other Title:

At a Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay ...

Place of Publication:

[Boston] : [Printed by Bartholomew Green], [1721]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"In Council September 7th 1721. Read and concurr'd. ..."--p. 2.

Followed on pages 3 by the Boston selectmen's directions for burials; signed: A true copy of the original order, attest Samuel Checkley, town clerk.

Title from caption title and opening lines of text; preceded by headlines.

Ascribed to the press of Bartholomew Green by Evans.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 2202).

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Evans 2202

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