against the French.) Dated, February 18, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council, 1756. BPL. MHS 1054. By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; . . . A Proclamation (on reinlisting Battoemen for other Services.) Dated, March 23, 1756. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, March 25, 1756. 1055. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; ...A Proclamation for a publick Fast. [April 29.] Dated, April 9, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governour and Council. 1756. HC. MHS Evans, 7710. 1056. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ...A Proclamation (prohibiting the exportation of provisions or warlike stores from the Province until after September 20.) Dated, June 9, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. 1756. † AAS 1057. By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq;. . . A Proclamation (royal grant of lands to soldiers serving against the French.) Dated, July 5, 1752. Printed in the Boston Weekly News-Letter, July 8, 1756. 1058. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ...A Proclamation for a publick Fast. July 22.] Dated, July 10, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. Evans, 7712. MHS 1059. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; ...A Proclamation, | For a Publick Thanksgiving. [November 25.] Dated, November 5, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. Evans, 7713. BA. MHS 1060. [Royal arms.] By the Honourable | Spencer Phips, Esq; 1. | a Proclamation | For Proroguing the General Court [to January 6, 1757.] Dated, December 6, 1756. Boston: Printed by John Draper, Printer to the Honourable the | Lieutenant-General and Council. MHS 1061. By his Excellency | William Shirley, Esq; | ... | Whereas a Number of Battoe-men will be wanted . . . Dated, January 19, 1756. MHS 1062. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. | William Shirley, Esq;... You are hereby required, in His Majesty's Name, immediately to cause the Enlistments of Soldiers in the several Companies, Dated in Ms., April 15. BPL 1063. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. | By His Honour the Lieut. Governour- | You are hereby required to cause all the military Companies in the Regiment. . . to be mustered on the Third Wednesday of June next. Dated, May 28, 1756. BPL. MHS 1064. [Royal arms.] Spencer Phips, Esq;... | Whereas notwithstanding the repeated Orders issued to the several | Colonels in the Province, there is a Deficiency in the whole Number of Men ordered to be raised for the Service of the Crown-Point Expedition. Dated, July 8, 1756. Evans, 7711. LC. MHS 1065. Province of the | Massachusetts-Bay. | By His Excellency | William Shirley, Esq;... Whereas the Quota of Men for this Province in the Expedition | against Crown-Point, was . . . determined to be Three Thousand Five Hundred Men. Dated, August [23]. 1756. MHS 1066. Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy: | And Declaration. [Dated in MS. September, 1756.] † MA 2 leaves. Archives, XLIV. 309. The last words on the ninth line from foot of Declaration reads "of the Crown," instead of "of theCrown,' 1067. Military Commission, [William Shirley, Captain-General and Governour in Chief], for the expedition against French at Crown Point and Lake Iroquois (Champlain). 1068. I EI. MHS do acknowledge to have voluntarily inlisted myself as a private Soldier, to serve . . . for the Reduction of Crown-Point. (With certificate.) Archives, LXXVIII. 205. MA 1069. Precept to elect representatives to General Court. (On verso is the return made.) Archives, CXVII. 137. MA 1070. A Portledge-Bill of Master and Sailors in His Majesty's Service [in the Expedition against Crown Point.] Archives, LXV. 230; ccxci. 42. MA 1071. Province of the Harrison Gray, Esq; July 1, 1756. Massachusetts- | Bay, ss. [Royal arms.] EI 1072. Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, ss. [Royal arms.] Harrison Gray, Esq; Treasurer . . . (tax warrant). Dated November 2, 1756. PECK, ABIEZER. MHS 1073. On the Valiant | New-England | General. Dated, Rehoboth, April 5, 1756. JCB. MHS The General is John Winslow (1702–1774). 1757 1074. The Award and final Determination | Of the Referees respecting the Claims of the Proprietors of the Kenebeck | Purchase from the late Colony of New-Plymouth, and the Company holding | under Clark and Lake, relative to the Lands on each Side Kenebeck River. [August Term, 1757.] Evans, 7837. GERMANTOWN LOTTERY. AAS. MHS 1075. First Class of the Germantown Lottery. (Granted April, 1757, for the encouragement of Manufactures in Germantown.) GREAT BRITAIN. MHS 1076. [Cut.] Extract of Articles | From the Treaty-Marine | with Holland, concluded at London the first Day of December | 1674, O. S. [On p. 3:] Extracts from the Articles of Peace, Commerce and Alliance between the Crowns of Great-Britain and Spain, concluded in a Treaty at Madrid, the 13/23 Day of May 1667. Boston, New-England: Reprinted by John Draper, 1757. pp. 3. Evans, 7906. HARRINGTON, JOHN. MHS 1077. The Last Words and Dying | Speech | Of John Harrington, Aged 43 Years. | Who was executed at Cambridge, March 17, 1757, for the Murder of Paul Learned. Sold next to the Prison, in Queen-Street, 1757. MHS 1078. [Cut.] The Agonies of a Soul departing out of Time | into Eternity. A few Lines occasioned by the untimely End of John Harrington, | Who is to be Executed at Cambridge this Day, being the 17th of March, 1757, for the | Murder of Paul Learnard, the 1st of September last. MHS Lieutenant-Governour and Commander in Chief in and over. His Majefty's Province of the Maffachusetts-Bay in New-England. A PROCLAMATION for a publick FAST. WH HEREAS Almighty GOD is pleafed ftill to chastize us with the grievous Judgment of War, and to permit the unjuft Invafions of the British Territories in North-America, as well as in other Parts of the World, by the French, who have employed the Indians in these Parts, as Inftruments of their Cruelty in fhedding the Blood of Multitudes of Women and Children, as well as Men, upon the Frontiers of these Colonies, with fuch Circumstances of Barbarity as are most abhorrent not only to the trueŝpirit of Christianity, but 'even toHumanity itself; And whereas the Preparations now made and making against us by our French and. Indian Enemy loudly admonish Lis of our Danger as alfo of our Duty, to acknowledge the righteous Hand of God in thefe Difpenfations of his Providence, and to seek a fpeedy Reconciliation to Him; and the Time of Action of the Forces raised by this and the neighbouring Governments for recovering their juft Rights out of the Hands of their Enemies being probably very near, the Voice of Providence doth evidently call upon us to feek to God for his Bleffing upon our important Undertakings, without which we have no Ground to hope for Success; T have therefqze thought it, with the Advice of his Majcky's Council and at the Delire of the Aflembly, to appoint Thursday the Twenty-fecond of this Infant, July to be observed thro’ont this Province as a way of publick Fafting an' Prayer; hereby calling upon Mintlters and People devoutly to foleumize the lame by the deepek Humiliations for our heinous Offences, by which we have highly incensed the Divine Majefty against us, and have caused him to hizt His Face from us, and to punish us with the foze Calamities of TWar; and also to imploze dis Commiferation af us, in our present Difirelles, and inercifully direct in the Forming and Executing of our military Enterprizes, and thereby to deliver us out the hands of our Enemies, and enable us to recover our Rights and Properties, by them unjuftlý invaded; that he would keep all Sin out of our Camps, as well as from the whole Community, and inake us a penitenz and reformed People; that he would inspire our Officers with Conduc and Refolution, and our Soldiers With Faithfulness and Courage; and that, as the Captain of our Salvation, be would lead them on to Succefs and Widory; That he would graciously preferve the important Life of our Sovereign Lord the KING with all the Branches of his Royal Houfe; and direct His Counsels and profper His juft Arms for reftor and preserving the Peace of Europe; and that the Divine Promises and Predictions of the Universal and Spiritual Reign- of cúr Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, the Prince of Peace, may be foeedily accomplished. And all fervile Labour and Recreations are forbidden on the faid Lay. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, the Tenth Day of July 1756, in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GQD of Gicat-Britain, France and, Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. By Order of His Honour the Lieutenant Governour, with the Advice of the Council, F. Willard, Secr'y. GOD fave the KING. S. Phips. BOSTON: Printed by John Draper, Printer to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governour and Council. No. 1058. MONT By the Honourable His MAJESTY's COUNCIL, For the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A PROCLAMATION. W HEREAS the General Affembly have in their prefent Seffion paffed an A&t to prohibit the Departure of all Ships and Veffels from any Port or Place within the Province; and of all Fishing-Veffels, fuch only excepted as are not ufually abfent more than four Days at aTime, until the Twentieth Day of April Inftant, without fpecial Permiflion from His Majefty's Council, or the major Part of them, on Penalty of forfeiting One Hundred Pounds, to be paid by the Master; and the like Penalty of One Hundred Pounds to be paid by the Owner or Owners of every fuch Ship or Veffel departing as aforefaid: ÂND WHEREAS Provifion is made in faid Act, that His Majefty's Council, or the major Part of them, fhall, if they fee fit, lengthen out the said Embargo the First Day of June next ; Wi E have therefore thought fit, in Council, to illue this Proclamation ; hereby giving pubi Notice of the aforesaid Ac of Government; and arialy forbidding all afters of Owners of any Ships or Weffels within the Province to suffer any such Ships or Weffels, without special permillion from His Majesty's Louncil oz the majoz Part of them, to depart out of the fame, oz to proceed to any of the Filhing-Banks until the Twentieth Day of April Inftant. AND we do hereby forbid all Officers concerned in the Clearing of Wellels to give Certificates of Clearances for any Ships or Wellels whatsoever within their respective Diftries to depart out of the province, during the Continuance of this Prohibition oz Embargo, without Permillion as afozefaid. AND all his Majefty's good Subjects who shall 02 may discover any Ship oz Neffèl privately o2 clandestinely loading within the Province, oz departing out of the fame contrary to Law, are hereby delired to give immediate Information thereof to his Majefty's Council, or to any of the DOfficers aforesaid, that all Perfons offending may ve profecuted according to Law for any fuch Offence. GIVEN at the Council-Chamber in BOSTON the Seventh Day of April 1757, in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second, by the Grace of GOD, of GreatBritain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c. WTM. Pepperrell Sam1 Watts BOSTON: Printed by John Draper, Printer to the Honourable His Majesty's Council, 1757. No. 1086. |