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By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for encouragement to voluntiers to prosecute the war against the Indian enemy ...

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for encouragement to voluntiers to prosecute the war against the Indian enemy ... Broadside
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Broadside by Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1732-1757 : Phips)

42.5 cm x 30.5 cm

Boston: : Printed by John Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council., [1745]

This broadside contains the text of a proclamation on 23 August 1745.


Be advised that this item contains racist language and descriptions of violence.

This proclamation issued by Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts Bay Spencer Phips on 23 July 1745 declares war against the Penobscot, Norridgewock [Narantsouuk], "other Eastern Indians", authorizes soldiers and civilians to capture or kill members of the aforementioned groups and lays out bounties based on age, gender, and condition.  Bounties like these served as a license for colonists to kill indigenous people.