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    By His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland. A brief . It having been represented to me, by His Majesty's governor of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, that on the 20th of March last, a fire broke out in th town of Boston, in such manner as to elude all means for suppressing the same, until it had (according to the best information that could be obtained) destroyed 174 dwelling-houses, and as many warehouses, shops and other buildings ..

    Maryland. Governor (1753-1769 : Sharpe) | Date: 1760]
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    The vanity of zeal for fasts, without true judgment, mercy and compassions A sermon preach'd at Charlestown, January 28. 1747,8. On a publick fast, after the destruction of the province court-house by fire. By Thomas Prentice, A.M. one of the pastors of the church there Published by desire. [Four lines of quotations].

    Prentice, Thomas, 1702-1782. | Date: 1748

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