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Resolve confirming a grant of land thirty miles square, to the heirs of Brigadier Waldo, on certain conditions, July 4, 1785
the committee appointed ... to examine the claims to land in the county of Lincoln, &c. take leave to report -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five
an Act for the Regulation of Navigation and Commerce -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, Governor ... A proclamation, for a day of fasting and prayer
... Thursday, the fifteenth day of April next ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the thirteenth day of March ... one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, July 11, 1783
Whereas it is necessary that the legislature should be furnished with an account of all bounties paid to soldiers during the war, in order that a charge thereof may be made against the United States: Therefore, resolved, that the selectmen ... collect the receipts ... of all bounties paid ... Resolved further, that the secretary ... collect an account of the dates of all the resolves ... for raising or detaching men -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor ... A proclamation, for a day of public fasting and prayer
... Thursday the fifteenth day of May next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, this twenty third day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three -
Boston, October 16, 1783
the House proceeded in the consideration of the bill for granting an impost to Congress -
An act, laying duties of impost and excise, on certain goods, wares and merchandize, therein described ; and for repealing the several laws heretofore made for that purpose
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Thomas Ivers, Esq ; treasurer and receiver-general of the said commonwealth
To the selectmen or assessors of the town of [blank] Greeting, &c. In obedience to an act ... These are in the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, to will and require you forthwith to assess the sum ... Given under my hand and seal at Boston, the twelfth day of December ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two -
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation. For a day of thanksgiving
... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of November instant, (the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the fourth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two -
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer
... Thursday the twenty fifth day of April instant (the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the eleventh day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty two -
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; ... A brief
Whereas the hostile forces of Great-Britain ... early in this contest ... exerted their powers in the destruction of the town of Charlestown ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twelfth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, July 4th, 1782
Whereas, a spirit of domination ... compelled the inhabitants of this country to enter into a contest ... Success hath hitherto attended our patriotic exertions ... but our finances are deranged, and the want of a circulating medium is severely felt -
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation for a day of thanksgiving
... the thirteenth day of December next (the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston the twenty second day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty one -
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A brief
Whereas the United States, in Congress assembled, have recommended voluntary and free donations to be applied for the support of such of the citizens of the states of South-Carolina and Georgia as have been driven from their country and possessions by our inveterate and cruel enemy ... Given at Boston, the fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, October 20, 1781
Whereas, notwithstanding the resolves of the General Court ... there is still a deficiency of several towns ... in supplying the quota of men apportioned on them -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, March 3, 1781
On the petition of Cols. Putnam, Jackson, and Brooks, a committee from the army ... Resolved, that if any officer or soldier of the Massachusetts line of the Continental Army ... shall purchase at public vendue any confiscated estates in this commonwealth, on his paying ... the debts due from said estate, he shall have liberty to pay the remainder in depreciation notes -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 30, 1781
Whereas it is the earnest request of General Washington, that there be immediately raised in this commonwealth and sent on to join the Continental Army, a considerable body of the militia ... Resolved, that twenty-seven hundred men be immediately raised ... porportioned upon the several towns ... agreeable to the following schedule -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 22, 1781
Whereas it is necessary for the support of the army ... resolved, that the selectmen of each town in this Commonwealth ... procure ... eight thousand shirts, eight thousand pair of stockings, eight thousand pair of shoes, and four thousand blankets -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, June 22, 1781
Whereas the supplies of beef hitherto made by the several towns ... are found to be insufficient ... Be it therefore resolved, that the inhabitants of the several towns ... are hereby required, to furnish the quantity of live beef ... as in the schedule hereunto annexed -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace ... in and for the county of Worcester, on the first Tuesday of December, A.D. 1781
Ordered, that the clerk of this court transmit the following resolution to the select-men ... who are requested to communicate the same to the inholders ... As the laws of this commonwealth have provided, that no person shall be licenced as an innholder unless he appears to be of sober life and conversation -
A constitution or frame of government
agreed upon by the delegates of the people of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, in convention, begun and held at Cambridge on the First of September, 1779, and continued by Adjournments to the Second of March, 1780 -
By His Excellency John Hancock, Esq ; governor and commander in chief in and over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proclamation, for a day of thanksgiving
... Thursday the seventh day of December next ( the day recommended by the Congress to all the states) ... Given at the council-chamber in Boston, the eighth day of November ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty -
State of Massachusetts-Bay
In the House of Representatives, September 25, 1780. : Whereas the necessary supplies for the subsistance of our army for the present campaign, are obtained only in the specific articles from the respective states, agreeably to the requisitions and apportionment of Congress ... This Court ... do resolve, that the inhabitants of the several towns and plantations in this state be, and they are hereby required to furnish a number of cattle, or money sufficient to supply the quantity of beef ... in the schedule hereto annexed -
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, May 5th, 1780
Resolved, that the selectmen ... transmit to the agents appointed ... the monthly average prices of beef, Indian corn, sheeps-wool, and sole leather -
State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, Mar. 23, 1780
Resolved, that Major-General Heath ... appoint such number of recruiting officers belonging to the line of this state ... to compleat this state's quota of the Continental Army