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  The only method to promote the happiness of a people and their posterity. A sermon preached before the Honourable the lieut. governour, the Council, and representatives of the province of Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 29th. 1728. Being the day for the election of His Majesty's Council. / By Robert Breck M.A. Pastor of the church in Marlborough. ; [Two lines from Ecclesiastes]
  Date of publication:
  1728
  

  Author(s):

  Breck, Robert, 1682-1731. and Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Breck's election-sermon, May 29th: 1728.
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  The honours of Christ demanded of the magistrate. A sermon preach'd in the audience of His Excellency the governour, the honourable the Council and Representatives, of the province of Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, May 28. 1740. The day for the election of His Majesty's Council there. / By William Cooper, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston. ; [Two lines from John]
  Date of publication:
  1740
  

  Author(s):

  Cooper, William, 1694-1743. and Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Cooper's election sermon, May 28. 1740. Errata statement, p. 48.
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  A sermon preached before His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; governor, His Honor Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; lieutenant governor, the Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the province of the Massachusets-Bay in New-England, May 27th, 1767. Being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the province. / By Ebenezer Bridge, A.M. Pastor of the church in Chelmsford.
  Date of publication:
  1767
  

  Author(s):

  Bridge, Ebenezer, 1716-1792. and Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Bridge's election-sermon, May 27, 1767.
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  A sermon preached at Cambridge, in the audience of His Honor Thomas Hutchinson, Esq; lieutenant-governor and commander in chief; the Honorable His Majesty's Council, and the Honorable House of Representatives, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, May 30th, 1770. Being the anniversary for the election of His Majesty's Council for the said province. / By Samuel Cooke, A.M. Pastor of the Second Church in Cambridge.
  Date of publication:
  1770
  

  Author(s):

  Cooke, Samuel, 1709-1783. and Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Half-title: Mr. Cooke's election-sermon, May 30, 1770.
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  Proceedings of His Majesty's Council of the province of Massachusetts-Bay, relative to the deposition of Andrew Oliver, Esq; secretary of the said province, concerning what passed in Council in consequence of the unhappy affair of the 5th of March 1770.
  Date of publication:
  1770
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council.
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  Oliver was censured by the Council for divulging the Council's determination to remove British troops from the city of Boston in the wake of the Boston Massacre. Also issued as an appendix to the House journal for 1770-1771 ...
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  The speeches of His Excellency Governor Hutchinson, to the General Assembly of the Massachusetts-Bay. At a session begun and held on the sixth of January, 1773. : With the answers of His Majesty's Council and the House of Representatives respectively. : (Publish'd by order of the House.)
  Date of publication:
  1773
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1771-1774 : Hutchinson). ; Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780. ; Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. and Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription. Errata note, p. 126.
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  A proclamation for a public thanksgiving. ... Thursday the twenty-third day of November instant ... Given under our hands at the Council-chamber, in Watertown, this fourth day of November ...
  Date of publication:
  1775
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Signed by James Otis and fourteen other members of the Massachusetts Council. "By their honor's command, Perez Morton, dep'y. secr'y." Printed area measures 37.4 x 18.5 cm.
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  Several acts and laws passed by the great and general court or assembly of Their Majesties province of Massachusetts-Bay in New England. Convened and held at Boston, the eighth day of June. 1692. Anno Regni Gulielmi, et Mariæ, Regis et Reginæ Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ, quarto
  Date of publication:
  1692
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Council.
  Description:
  Pages have print show-through, with slight loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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  Anno Regni Regis & Reginæ Gulielmi & Mariæ secundo. By the governour, & Council. Whereas the Honourable Sir William Phipps knight is appointed to take the command of such forces as shall be raised for Their Majesties service in the present expedition against the French at Nova Scotia, and L'Accadie.
  Date of publication:
  1689
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1689-1692 : Bradstreet) ; Bradstreet, Simon, 1603-1697. and Massachusetts. Council.
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  An order for enlisting men in the expedition against Canada. Signed: By order of the governour and Council, Boston; March 24. 1689,90. Isaac Addington, secr. Publication data suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of ...
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  By the governour & general court of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay, in New-England. It having been a thing too sensible and obvious to escape the observation of all who are not wholly strangers in our Israel; that this poor land has laboured under a long series of afflictions and calamities, whereby we have suffered successively in our precious and pleasant things ... Wherefore it is ordered, that the laws of this colony against vice, and all sort of debauchery and prophaness (which laws have too much lost their edg by the late interrpution of the government) be now faithfully and vigorously put in execution ...
  Date of publication:
  1690
  

  Author(s):

  Massachusetts. Governor (1689-1692 : Bradstreet) ; Bradstreet, Simon, 1603-1697. and Massachusetts. Council.
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  Signed: "Isaac Addington Secr." Publication data suggested by Wing (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in: Massachusetts Historical Society Library.
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