Fires - Massachusetts - Boston
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esquire ... A brief, for a charitable contribution . Whereas by the permissive providence of God, a great number of families in the town of Boston, have from ease and affluence been suddenly reduced to extreme poverty and distress, by a destructive fire, which took place on the evening of the twentieth instant ... Given at the council-chamber, in Boston, the twenty-eighth day of April ... one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ..
Massachusetts. Governor (1785-1787 : Bowdoin)Date: [1787]- E-books
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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]- E-books
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By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq; ... A brief . It having pleased Almighty God to permit a fire to break out in the town of Boston, on the 20th instant ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twenty-fourth day of March, 1760 ..
Massachusetts. Governor (1757-1760 : Pownall)Date: 1760- E-books
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Advice from Taberah A sermon preached after the terrible fire, which, (attended with some very lamentable and memorable circumstances, on Oct. 2,3. 1711.) laid a considerable part of Boston, in ashes. Directing a pious improvement of every calamity, but more especially of so calamitous a desolation. By Cotton Mather, D.D. [Two lines from Numbers].
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1711- E-books
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The cry of oppression where judgment is looked for, and the sore calamities such a people may expect from a righteous God illustrated in two discourses from Isaiah V. vii. on January 28. 1747,48: which was set apart by the government for fasting and prayer, in consideration of the remarkable judgments of God upon the land: and more especially the destruction of the court-house by fire the 9th of December last. By Nathaniel Appleton, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. Publish'd at the desire of a great number of the hearers. [Seven lines from Isaiah].
Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784.Date: 17 [i.e., 1748]