SAVAGE, SAMUEL PHILLIPS. 1308. [I] Promise to pay unto Samuel Phillips Savage, or Bearer on Demand, being for Value received by a Premium of Insurance MHS 1309. A Valedicion, | For New-Year's Day. 1763. Signed "Philanthropos." † PHS This may not be a Boston issue, though the typographical ornaments would show it to be more than probably one. 1764 1310. Buy the | Truth, | and | sell it not. [Cut.] MHS An issue of the poem was made in 1764 in Providence, by William Goddard, "by particular Request of a worthy honest old Gentleman, who is zealous for the Cause of Truth, and anxious for the Welfare of his Fellow-Creatures." A copy is in the John Carter Brown Library. DORCHESTER. 1311. Tax bill. HARVARD COLLEGE. 1312. Catalogus. 1313. Theses. Evans, 9689, 9690. GREAT BRITAIN. MHS HC 1314. Two Acts of Parliament, | One passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of | King George the Second: | For Encouraging the Trade of the British Sugar | Colonies. | The other, passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Third: For Granting certain Duties in the British Colonies. [Royal arms.] London: Printed by the King's Printer. | Boston, N. E. Re-printed by Richard Draper, Prin- ter to His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable | His Majesty's Council of the Province of Massachusetts | Bay. M.DCC.LXIV. pp. 459-477. Two editions of these pages of the Acts and Laws (1759 and additions) were issued, one without a title and the other as cited above. They also differ "in the captions on pages 459, 464, in the Royal arms on pages 459, 464, and in the arrangement of lines; and in one edition the W in 'Whereas,' the first word of the Act beginning on page 459, is a plain four-line letter, while in the other edition it is an ornamental initial letter." There are also variations in paging. In some copies pages 460, 461, and 462 are correctly given, in others they are 160, 161, 162, or 160, 161, 164; also pages 464-479 are in some correctly numbered, in others, they are misnumbered 469 to 477, and in others pages 470, 473, 474 appear as 670, 463, 674. See Ford-Matthews, Bibliography of the Laws of Massachusetts-Bay, 454. Evans, 9682. 1315. An Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, | in Cambridge; with the Loss sustained thereby. Dated, January 25, 1764. Boston: Printed by R. and S. Draper. | 1764. BPL. MHS KENNEBECK PROPRIETORS. 1316. Deed. pp. 2. MASSACHUSETTS-BAY PROVINCE. MHS 1317. A Bill, | Now pending in the House of Representatives, and published by their Order, for the Consideration of the several Towns in this Province. | A Bill intituled, An Act for regulating the Whale Fishery. MHS pp. 3. See Journal of the House of Representatives, November 3, 1764. 1318. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq;. . . A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to April 18). Dated, March 10, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, March 15, 1764. 1319. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Francis Bernard, Esq;... A Proclamation for a General Fast, (April 12.) Dated, March 14, 1764. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to his Excellency the Governor and the Honorable his Majesty's Council. 1764. Evans, 9729. 1320. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; BA. AAS A Proc lamation For proroguing the General Court (to April 25). Dated, March 31, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, April 5, 1764. 1321. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to September 5). Dated, July 9, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, July 12, 1764. 1322. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proc lamation For Proroguing the General Court (to October 10). Dated, August 15, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, August 16, 1764. 1323. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . A Proc lamation (on enforcing law on trading with the Indians.) Dated, August 16, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, August 23, 1764. 1324. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . . . A Proc . An Account of the Fire at Harvard-College, in Cambridge; with the Lofs fuftained thereby. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 25. 1764. L All the Fathers, Greek and Latin, in their best editions. A great number of tracts in AST night HARVARD COLLEGE, defence of revealed rehgion, wrote by the most suffered the most ruinous lofs it ever met masterly hands, in the last and prefent century with since its foundation. In the middle Sermons of the most celebrated English divines, of a very tempestuous night, a fevere cold both of the established national church and proftorm of snow attended with high wind, we were teftant diffenters -Tracts upon all the branches awaked by the alarm of Rte. Harvard Hall, the' of polemic divinity The donation of the veneonly one of our ancient buildings which fill re- rable Society for propagating the Gospel in foreign mained, and the repofitory of our most valuable parts, confifting of a great many volumes of tracts treasures, the public LIBRARY and Philofophical against Popery, published in the Reigns of Charles APPARATUS, was feen in Rames. As it was a II and James II. the Boylean lectures, and other time of vacation, in which the ftudents were all the most esteemed English fermons :-A valuadifperfed, not a single perfon was left in any of the b'e collection of modern theological treatifes, preColleges except two or three in that part of fented by the Right Rev. Dr. Sherlock, late Lord Massachusetts molt distant from Harvard, where Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Hales, F. R. S. the fire could not be perceived till the whole fur- and Dr. Wilfon of London :-A vaft number of rounding air began to be illuminated by it: When philological trafts, containing the rudiments of al it was difcovered from the town, it had rifen to moft all languages, ancient and modern :-The a degree of violence that defied all oppofition. It Hebrew, Greek and Roman antiquities.-The is conjectured to have begun in a beam under the Greek and Roman Claffics, prefented by the late hearth in the library, where a fire had been kept excellent and catholic-fpirited Buhop Berkeley; for the ufe of the General Court, now refiding moft of them the best editions :-A large Collecand fitting here, by reafon of the Small-Pox at tion of Hiftory and biographical tracts, ancient and Boston from thence it burft out into the Libra- modern.-Differtations on various Political fubjects ry. The books eafily fubmitted to the fury of The Tranfactions of the Royal Society, Acathe flame, which with a rapid and irrcfiftable pro- demy of Sciences in France, Acta Eruditorum, grefs made its way into the Apparatus Chamber, Mifcellanea curiofa, the works of Boyle and Newand spread thro' the whole building. In a very ton, with a great variety of other mathematical fhort time, this venerable Monument of the Piety and philofophical treatifes.-A collection of the of our Ancestors was turn'd into an heap of ruins. moft approved Medical Authors, chiefly prefented. The other Colleges, Stoughton-Hall and Massa- by Mr. James, of the fand of Jamaica; to which chufetis-Hall, were in the utmost hazard of fha- Dr. Mead and other Gentlemen made very ring the fame fate. The wind driving the flaming confiderable additions: cinders directly upon their roofs, they blazed out and two compleat Skeletons of different fexes. Alfe Anatomical cuts Reversi dites in different places, nor could they I his collection would have been very ferviceable have been faved by all the help the Town could to a Profeffor of Phyfic and Anatomy, when the afford, had it not been for the affiftance of the revenues of the College fhould have been fufficiGentlemen of the General Court, among whom ent to fubfift a gentleman in this character-A his Excellency the Governor was very active; few ancient and valuable Manufcripts in different who, notwithstanding the extreme rigor of the languages-A pair of excellent new Globes of the feafon, exerted themselves in fupplying the town largeft fize, prefented by Andrew Oliver, jun. Engine with water, which they were obliged to Elq,-A variety of Curiolities natural and artififetch at last from a distance, two of the College cial, both of American and foreign produce-A pumps being then rendered ufelefs. Even the font of Greek types (which, as we had not yet new and beautiful Hollis-Hall, though it was on a printing office, was repofited in the library) prethe windward fide, hardly efcaped. It flood fo" fented by our great benefactor the late worthy near to Harvard, that the flames actually feized Thomas Hollis, Ffq; of London; whofe picture, it,and,if they had not been immediately fuppreffed, as large as the life, and inftitutions for two Promust have carried it. fefforships and ten Scholarships, peufhed in the flamesSome of the moft confiderable additions that had been made of late years to the library, came from other branches of this generous Family. But by the Bleffing of God on the vigorous efforts of the affiftants, the ruin was confined to Harvard-Hall; and there, befides the deftruction of the private property of those who had chambers in it, the public lofs is very great, perhaps, irreparable. The Library and the Apparatus, which for many years had been growing, and were now judged to be the best furnished in America, are annihilated. But to give the public a more diftinct idea of the lofs, we fhall exhibit a fummary view of the general contents of each, as far as we can, on a fudden, recollect them. Of the LIBRARY. IT contained-The Holy Scriptures in almoft all languages, with the most valuable Expofitors and Commentators, ancient and modern :-The whole Library of the late learned Dr Lightfoot, which at his death he bequeathed to this College, and contained the Targuins, Talauds, Rabbins, Polygot, and other valuable tracts relative to oriental literature, which is taught here: The library of the late eminent Dr. Theophilus Gale: * Harvard-Hall, 42 feet broad, 97 long, and four ftorics bigb, was founded A. D. 1672. The library contained above five thousand vo- As the library records are burnt, no doubt fome Of the APPARATUS. Under the head of Mechanics, there were machines for experiments of falling bodies, of the centre of gravity, and of centrifugal forces ;—the forts, levers, pullies, axes in peritrochio, wedges, feveral mechanical powers, balances of different compound engines; with curious models of each in brass. In Hydrostatics, very nice balances, j.rs and bottles of various fizes fitted with brass caps, veffels for proving the grand hydrostatic Paradox, fiphons, g'afs models of pumps, hydrostatic balance, &c. In Pneumatics, there was a number of different tubes for the Torricellian experiment, a large double-barrell'd Air-pump, with a great variety of receivers of different fizes and fhapes; fyringes, exhaufting and .condenfing; Barometer, Thermometer, with many other articles. In Optics, there were feveral forts of mirrors, concave, convex, cylindric; Lenfes of different foci; inftruments for proving the fundamental law of refraction; Prifms, with the whole apparatus for the Newtonian theory of light and colors; the camera obfcura, &c purposes. us by Mr. Thomas Hollis, Nephew to that ge- For Aftronomy, we had before been fupplied with and a brass Quadrark of 2 tret radius, carrying a Telescopes of differeat lengths; one of 24 feet; Telescope of a greater length', which formerly belonged to the celebrated Dr. Halley. We had alfo the most useful inftruments for Dialling ;and for Surveying, a brafs femicircle, with plain fights and magnetic needle. Alf, a curious TeJefcope, with a complete apparatus for taking the difference of Level; lately prefented by Chriftopher Kilby, Efq, been made to this apparatus by feveral generous Many very valuable additions have of late years benefactors, whom it would be ingranrude not to commemorate here, as no veftiges of their dona tions reinain We are under obligation to mention particululy, the late Sir Peter Warren, Knt, Sir Henry Frankland, Bart. Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Efq, Lt Governor of Nova-Scotia; Thomas Hancock, L, James Bowdoin, Efij, Fzekiel Goldthwait, Efq, John Hancock, A. M of Bolton, and Mr. Gilbert Harrifon of London, Merchant. From thefe Gentlemen we received fine reflecting Telescopes of different magnifying powers; and adapted to different obfervations; Microfcopes of the feveral forts now in ufe; Hadley's Quadrant fitted in a new manner; a nice Variation Compafs, and Dipping needle; with inftruments for the feveral magnetical and electrical experiments-all new, and of excellent workmanship.ALL DESTROYED! Cambridge, Jan. 26. 1764. As the General Affembly have this day chearfully and unanimoufly voted to rebuild Harvard-Hall, it encourages us to hope, that the LIBRARY and APPARATUS Will alfo be repaired by the private munificence of thofe who with well to America, have a regard for NewEngland, and know the importance of literature to the Church and State BOSTON: PRINTED BY R, AND S, DRAPERI 1764. Liberty, Property, and no Excife. A Poem, Compos'd on eccafion of the SIGHT feen on the GREAT TREES, (fo called) in L ETA's fons in praife their tongues employ News Bugland smile, and Byfer fhout for joy: PITT * ipite of suaves, their politics and wit, "She full enjoys her LIBERTY She refts fecure from ev'ry foreign foc, Dendes their plots, and fees their overthrow ; And foon fhall fee the wretch completely curs'd Who ftrove to $TAMP her glory in the du Freedom, (the cries) I cannot cringe to knaves, My fons are free, and never will be flaves *** Let tyrants inle with arbitrary fway, Villains command, and whining fools obey : Let daftards live in infamy and shame, While Brite 6ght for liberty and fame : Let all her foes like bees prepare to fwarm ; Old Plate rage, and Purgatory form : Let Charms raile his cars and long-boat take, And force with fury down the torrid lake. Speak Proferpine, thy will fhall be obey'd, Bid ev'ry fiend forfake the gloomy fhade · Give these commands to each infernal ghost, ** Go fpit your venom on the Brijjh coast; * Hafte there and fpread contention wide and far, * Perplex her ifle, and fet her fons at war: « Then to America with vengeance ge, * Let them in flavery own the powers below." « Then hark while 1 predat the time and place. * Whofe chearfi, bathes paints the morning skies i « The thades are chileʼd, the lingʻring stars are fled. * And yonder Phek lifts his golden head : ** (Then cries the P. phet) I must haste away, « The Gods command and mortals muft obey.” No more I heard from out his facred mouth, He took his leave and went towards the South Then I beheld amazing wonders there, « San human shapes and moosters in the wir. A. ftately elm appear'd before my eye Whok lofty branches feem'd to touch the tkies 1 It's limba were bent with more than common fruit, It bore the Devil, Omier, and B-te Well then, faid I, my doubts are wholly Bed, I find the truth of what the father fard . But while I ftood to gaze upon the tree, Another and another came to fery For on they preft 'nill thousands fill'd the place, This pleating profpect, entertains the throng * And view the wretch, who with'd fome tyrant #AR * 3.6en bear them hence with every fun'ral right.” What now, (lad I) is all compaffion fed ? Thea Down ** Adarch then, (lad he) in one united throng, w And you march, be fais the fun'ral long. dtcries, and ge thefe mortals muft; #earth, and &TÃMP 'em in the love, the words are sung by all, cars and thro' the pompous bell thus arole a grad debate, (Such of attend the funʼrals of the great) And wild duorder feszes all the band ; *Forth fome advance, while others make a ftand. One buds thers halt, another * fill march forth ** And vifit all the region of the Nørid" Soon A third poselsums, *Let these be firit convey'd * In peaceful fiience to the dreary fhade" *Then ipake their head, the regent of the rugha) ** Alas ! our hoft is in a fhamctul plight ** Is this the way to get a hero's name ? ** Jön arm to arm, like one canal band, * Then here (he cries) be all comenton fled, * Come Billow on, your chief wat the head.” 2. Thus hương, (pake, will hear the wondrous»«*, And forth they move; (the champion leads the van) Noise could offed, and nothing dare oppose, The other course, but foon they down wuh t's, Low in theduft they made the ftructure L Then &g de bricks, and bore the wood mway, Blow from the ruins ev'ry one retire. Up to the mount and ruft the fun ral fire. * Supposed to be built for a STRIP-OFFICE" Supposed lamation For Proroguing the General Court (to October 18). Dated, September 29, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, October 4, 1764. 1325. [Royal arms.] By His Excellency | Francis Bernard, Esq;...A Proclamation | For a general Thanksgiving. [November 29.] Dated, November 7, 1764. Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to the Governor and Council. 1764. Evans, 9730. AAS. BA 1326. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq;. . . A Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court (to January 9). Dated, November 24, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, November 30, 1764. 1327. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; A Proclamation (prohibiting the carriage of any of the late inhabitants of Acadie or Nova Scotia to the French West Indies.) Dated, November 28, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, November 30, 1764. 1328. By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; . A Proclamation (on cessation of hostilities with Indian nations.) Dated, December 19, 1764. Printed in the Massachusetts Gazette, December 27, 1764. 1329. Oaths appointed to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy: | And Declaration. (Endorsed, May, 1764.) MA 2 leaves. Archives, L. 195. The last words in the second line from the foot of the first leaf are "with or annul the" 1330. Commission as Justice of Inferior Court of Common Pleas. 1331. Collector's receipts for Excise. BPL MHS 1332. [Cut.] The | News-Boy's | Christmas and New-Year's Verses. Humbly Address'd | To the Gentlemen and Ladies to whom he carries the Boston Evening- | Post, published by T. & J. Fleet. December 31. 1764. † PHS 1333. A New Year's Wish, | A Happy Year to my generous Customers. Boston, January 1, 1764. SAVAGE, SAMUEL PHILLIPS. † PHS 1334. In the Name of God, Amen. Policy of marine insurance. Insurance-Office kept in King-Street, Boston, by Samuel Phillips Savage. MHS |