Records Relating to the Early History of Boston ...Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1908 |
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according to Adjournment Anno Domini Article Assembled at Faneuil Assessors become due Benjamin Benjamin Lincoln Boston duly qualified Caleb Davis Esq calling the Meeting Capt Charles Jarvis chosen Moderator Clock Committee appointed Commonwealth County of Suffolk directed to withdraw Edward Edward Burt ensuing Esq¹ Expences Faneuil Hall Fire Wards Freeholders hand Vote hereby are given Honble Inhabitants were directed James Bowdoin Jonathan Mason Joseph Barrel Joseph Russell legally warned Meeting was dissolved Messrs Motion Voted Moved & Voted Number of Votes O'Clock Overseers paid him Quarterly Persons Voted Petition Public Town Meeting qualified and legally read whereupon Revd Samuel Adams Samuel Breck Selectmen Stephen Higginson Suffolk thereon Thomas Crafts Esq Thomas Dawes Esq Town Clerk Town Meeting Assembled Town of Boston Town Treasurer Viz¹ Votes being brought warned in public Warrant for calling Warrant Vizt whereupon Voted William Cooper William Eustis William Tudor withdraw and bring
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Stran 408 - Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individuals of the other, nor shares, nor monies, which they may have in the public funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever in any event of war or national differences be sequestered or confiscated...
Stran 365 - At a meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, duly qualified and legally warned in public Town meeting, assembled at Faneuil Hall, on Monday the 10th day of October, Anno Domini 1796.
Stran 178 - Independence — shall be constantly celebrated by the delivery of a public oration in such place as the town shall determine to be most convenient for the purpose ; in which the orator shall consider the feelings, manners, and principles which led to this great national event, as well as the important and happy effects, whether general or domestic, which already have, and will for ever continue, to flow from this auspicious epoch.
Stran 239 - Boston is, perhaps, the only instance known where persons of every description and disease are lodged under the same roof and in some instances in the same contagious apartments, by which means the sick are disturbed by the noise of the healthy, and the infirm rendered liable to the vices and diseases of the diseased and profligate.
Stran 405 - Oration this day delivered by him, at the request of the Town, upon the anniversary of the Independence of the United States of America, in which according to the institution of the Town, he considered the feelings, manners and principles which led to that great national event, — And to request of him a Copy thereof for the Press.
Stran 209 - Masters as they shall think proper, to examine the Scholars in the particular branches which they are taught, and by all proper Methods to excite in them a laudable ambition to excel in a virtuous, amiable deportment and in every branch of useful knowledge.
Stran 209 - That the children of both sexes be admitted into the Reading and Writing Schools at the age of seven years, having previously received the instruction usual at women's schools ; that they be allowed to continue in the Reading and Writing Schools until the age of fourteen ; the boys attending the year round, the girls from the...
Stran 268 - A theatre, where the actions of great and virtuous men are represented, under every possible embellishment which genius and eloquence can give, will not only afford a rational and innocent amusement, but essentially advance the interests of private and political virtue ; will have a tendency to polish the manners and habits of society, to disseminate the social affections, and to improve and refine the literary taste of our rising republic.
Stran 213 - I rejoice with you, my fellow-citizens, in every circumstance that declares your prosperity; and I do so most cordially because you have well deserved to be happy. " Your love of liberty, your respect for the laws, your habits of industry, and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness, and they will, I trust, be firmly and lastingly established.
Stran 329 - No town meetings were held in Boston during the siege, but on Friday, March 29, 1776, just twelve days after the evacuation of the town by the Royal forces, a " Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston duly qualified and legally warned " was held in the