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To His Excellency William Shirley, captain general and governor in chief over His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England. To the Honourable His Majesty's Council, with the House of Representatives, in General Court assembled May 1754. The representation and petition of Ebenezer Wadsworth of Grafton and Samuel Robinson of Hardwick, in the county of Worcester, and Richard Seaver of Roxbury, in the county of Suffolk ... Humbly sheweth, that God hath given to every man an unalienable right (in matters of his worship) to judge for himself as his conscience receives the rule from God by His word ..

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wadsworth, Ebenezer, author.
Contributor:
Robinson, Samuel.
Seaver, Richard.
Massachusetts. Governor (1741-1757 : Shirley)
Massachusetts. General Court.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 40729.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Church tax--Massachusetts.
Church tax.
Massachusetts.
Genre:
Broadsides.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))
Place of Publication:
[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1754]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Begging exemption from taxes for the support of churches.
The Massachusetts Archive copy has the date May 1754 changed in manuscript to October 17, 1754.
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 40729).
Cited in:
Bristol B1693
Shipton and Mooney 40729
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1002
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