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Dates:

23 Jan. 1776

Original paper slip text:23 Jan. 1776

Title:

By the Great and

Massachusetts General Court

Original paper slip text:General Court of Massachusetts-Bay

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/A Proclamation

Length:

1 p. (broadside; no imprint)

Notes:

Broadside Coll.: Bdses 1776 Jan. 23
For MS draft in JA's hand, see under 19 Jan. 1776 (Ac/M-Ar). See slip
011655
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See D/JA, 2:226, and reference there.
Evans 14839
See also PDF version in Electronic Image Archive. ER 4/1/2016
Folio broadside offered in The Month at Goodspeed's, 39:28 (Oct. 1967) $250.
Issued by the Massachusetts legislature sitting in Watertown during the British occupation of Boston. Relates to the British tyranny & disregard of the constitutional rights of Massachusetts which had caused the Patriots to regard the office of royal governor as vacant—"especially at a Time when General [Governor] Gage hath actually levied War"—and their election of a popular government of their own, independent of the Crown. "To me this is the most interesting of all the broadsides listed in Evans which were issued by the Massachusetts authorities in 1775 & 1776."—Streeter 707.
Information transferred from multiple blue slips and those slips now deleted. ER 5/3/2016

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From the collection: Broadside Collection.

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JA Works

Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 1:193–196

Full citation:

The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856
10 vols.

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Mass Province Laws

Original paper slip text:Mass., Provinces Laws, 19:947–949, see references there.

Full citation:

The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Boston, 1869–1922
21 vols.

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Niles Principles and Acts, 1822, p. 142–143
Facsimile in Ford, Mass. Broadsides, No. 1973, facing p. 272.

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