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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esquire ... A brief, for a charitable contribution. [electronic resource] : Whereas by the permissive providence of God, a great number of families in the town of Boston, have from ease and affluence been suddenly reduced to extreme poverty and distress, by a destructive fire, which took place on the evening of the twentieth instant ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the twenty-eighth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ...

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Book
Government document
Author/Creator:
Massachusetts. Governor (1785-1787 : Bowdoin)
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790., Author.
Contributor:
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790.
Adams, Thomas, 1757?-1799, printer.
Nourse, John, 1762?-1790, printer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Disaster relief--Massachusetts.
Disaster relief.
Charities--Massachusetts.
Charities.
Fires--Massachusetts--Boston.
Fires.
Genre:
Broadsides.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sheet ) ill. (relief cut) ;
Other Title:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esquire ... A brief, for a charitable contribution
Place of Publication:
Boston : Printed by Adams and Nourse, printers to the General Court, [1787]
Notes:
Signed: James Bowdoin. By His Excellency's command, John Avery, Jun. secretary.
Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
Cited in:
Shipton & Mooney, 45098
English Short Title Catalog, W34308.
OCLC:
511238873

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