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... returned to this board under their hands By Order in Councill & c JOHN WEST D Secry What is perhaps the final allusion to this matter occurs in the following document ( Massachusetts Archives , cxxvi . 238 ) under date of March 6 , 1688 ...
... returned to this board under their hands By Order in Councill & c JOHN WEST D Secry What is perhaps the final allusion to this matter occurs in the following document ( Massachusetts Archives , cxxvi . 238 ) under date of March 6 , 1688 ...
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... Returned them an Answer in Writing as followth Vizt Boston May 10th 1689 In Answer to a declaration drawn up and Signed by Ebenezer Prout as Clerk to the Company of Representa- tives of the Several Towns of the Massachusets Colony dated ...
... Returned them an Answer in Writing as followth Vizt Boston May 10th 1689 In Answer to a declaration drawn up and Signed by Ebenezer Prout as Clerk to the Company of Representa- tives of the Several Towns of the Massachusets Colony dated ...
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... returned and died suddenly in New York on March 5 , 1701,3 the government again devolved upon Lieutenant - Governor Stoughton , who remained Act- ing Governor until his death on July 7 , 1701.3 4 By the death of Stoughton , the ...
... returned and died suddenly in New York on March 5 , 1701,3 the government again devolved upon Lieutenant - Governor Stoughton , who remained Act- ing Governor until his death on July 7 , 1701.3 4 By the death of Stoughton , the ...
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... returned in the evening to the Coun- cil Chamber & drank a health to His Majestys the Prince all the Royal Family & the Regency & The Town House & particular Houses in several principal streets being finely illuminated . His Excellency ...
... returned in the evening to the Coun- cil Chamber & drank a health to His Majestys the Prince all the Royal Family & the Regency & The Town House & particular Houses in several principal streets being finely illuminated . His Excellency ...
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... returned it to the Council ; and at 1 o'clock George II was proclaimed from the Town House . The Council Records then proceed to say : After the Proclamation was ended & the loud & joyful acclamations that suc- ceeded it , The Regiments ...
... returned it to the Council ; and at 1 o'clock George II was proclaimed from the Town House . The Council Records then proceed to say : After the Proclamation was ended & the loud & joyful acclamations that suc- ceeded it , The Regiments ...
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