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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]
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A seasonable and earnest address to the citizens of London, soon after the dreadful fire which consumed the greatest part of that famous metropolis, in the year 1666. By that Reverend and faithful minister Mr. James Janeway. To which is added, Dr. Smollett's account of the said conflagration and the imputed causes thereof. Taken from his History of England. Together with a particular relation of the great fire of Boston, in New-England; which broke out at the Brazen-Head, in Cornhill, about two o'clock in the morning, on March 20, 1760.
Janeway, James, 1636?-1674.Date: [1760]
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Five sermons: viz. The first on Septemb. 30. 1711. From Psal. 73. 1. Being the last deliver'd in the Old Meeting-House, which was burnt, October 2d. 1711. The second from Lam. 3. 51. At the South Meeting-House in Boston, on Octob. 7. 1711. Being the first Lords-Day after the fire. The third on Decemb. 18. 1711. From Psal. 26. 8. Being on a fast, kept by the Old Church: occasion'd by the burning of their meeting-house. The fourth on May 3. 1713. From Hag. 2. 9. Being the first in the Brick Meeting-House, where the former was burnt. The fifth on Nov. 12. 1713. From Zech. 4. 7. A thanksgiving sermon, for God's goodness in providing a new meeting-house for the Old Church. With a preface, giving some account of the fire, Octob. 2. 1711. By Benjamin Wadsworth, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston, N.E. [Two lines from Psalms]
Wadsworth, Benjamin, 1670-1737.Date: 1714
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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]
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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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