Gentlemen, The selectmen, by order of the town, have directed me to inclose the following address [electronic resource] : to be communicated to the inhabitants of your town ...
1786
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Title
Gentlemen, The selectmen, by order of the town, have directed me to inclose the following address [electronic resource] : to be communicated to the inhabitants of your town ...
Created/published
[Boston] : [s.n], [1786]
Description
1 sheet ; 46 x 30 cm
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Note
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Signed: william Cooper, town-clerk. Boston, Sept. 11, 1786.
Followed by the addres of the selectmen: Friends and fellow citizens, The inhabitants of the town of Boston can never remain the unconcerned spectators of the distress and calamity of their fellow citizens in any part of the commonwealth ..
The address, while not specifically naming Shays' Rebellion, begs the inhabitants to communicate with their representatives in the General Court and to use constitutional means, rather than violence, to obtain redress for any grievances.
Text in three columns.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Signed: william Cooper, town-clerk. Boston, Sept. 11, 1786.
Followed by the addres of the selectmen: Friends and fellow citizens, The inhabitants of the town of Boston can never remain the unconcerned spectators of the distress and calamity of their fellow citizens in any part of the commonwealth ..
The address, while not specifically naming Shays' Rebellion, begs the inhabitants to communicate with their representatives in the General Court and to use constitutional means, rather than violence, to obtain redress for any grievances.
Text in three columns.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
ESTC staff note
Not in Ford, W.C. Broadsides
Cited/described in
Bristol, R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans' American bibliography, B6250
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 44858
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W1644
Shipton, C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800, 44858
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), W1644
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Place of creation/publication
United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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