By His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq; ... A proclamation. : Forasmuch as the Island of Sables is not inhabited, and so scituated as it often happens, that ships and other vessels are unfortunately cast on said island .. And whereas Mr. Andrew Le Mercier, by his petition has represented to me the great advantage it would be to his majesty's subjects to make a settlement on said island ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the fourth day of September 1738. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts. Governor (1730-1741 : Belcher)

Contributor:

Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40146.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Le Mercier, Andrew, 1692-1763.

Le Mercier, Andrew.

Shipwrecks--Nova Scotia--Sable Island.

Shipwrecks.

Sable Island (N.S.).

Nova Scotia--Sable Island.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)) : coat of arms

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed by J. Draper, printer to his excellency the governour and Council., [1738]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Forbidding the killing or carrying away of livestock brought to Sable Island for the purpose of establishing a settlement there.

Signed: By order of the governour, with the advice of the Council, J. Belcher. Simon Frost, dep. secr.

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Shipton and Mooney 40146

Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 697

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