boston

Boston in New England. August 9th 1667. The Governour, deputy-governou...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 5.

Boston. March 22. 1672/3 The Deputy Covernour and magistrates adjacent...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 8.

At the second sessions of the General Court held at Boston in New-Engl...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 11.

At a General Court held at Boston in New England the second day of Oct...

Positive Photostat.; Thanksgiving proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33... more

The London Gazette: Published by authority. From Thursday February 5th...

Positive Photostat.; Announces the death of King Charles II. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection;... more

An elegiack tribute to the sacred dust of the Reverend and worthy Mr. ...

Positive Photostat.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 13.

The General Courts answer to Joseph Dudley esqr. &c. This was pas'd by...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 14.

By his Excellency, a proclamation. Whereas His Majesty hath been graci...

To his highness William Henrick, Prince of Orange, the most humble pet...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 22.

Two addresses from the Governour, council and convention of the Massac...

Incomplete.; Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 18b.

From a gentleman of Boston to a friend in the countrey. [Signed] N. N....

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 21.

His majesty's most gracious letter to his government of the Massathuse...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 19.

To the king and queens most excellent majesties. The humble address of...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 18a.

A relation of Captain Bull, concerning the Mohawks at Fort-Albany, May...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 102, Folder 1.

At the General Court of their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Ba...

Positive Photostat.; This is supposed to be the first emission of paper money in the colonies.; Paper money. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... more

Anno Regni regis & reginae Gulielmi& Mariae secundo. By the Governour,...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 24.

At a General Court for their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay...

Incomplete. p. 2 wanting.; Positive Photostat.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection... more

[Arms] By His Excellency the Governor. Whereas it hath been of absolut...

Ford 191.; Evans 619. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 25c.

The earthquake Naples: September 21, 1694. Boston, N. E. Preprinted by...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 28.

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By the honorable, the Lieutenant co...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 29.

London, Septemb. 27, Yesterday morning arrived three Holland mails, wh...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 30.

The Turkish fast, out of the Monthly Mercury for December, 1697. [blan...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 31.

Province of the Massachusetts Bay. To the constables of any or either ...

To his excellency Joseph Dudley Esq. Governour of said province … Bost...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 32.

By His Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain general and governour i...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Coins. Rates of.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Coll... more

By his Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain general and governour i...

Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

By the Honourable Col. Francis Nicholson, and Col. Samuel Vetch. A pro...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; A proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfoli... more

B-n, Dec.8, 1713. To the honourable the Society for prorogating the go...

Not in Evans.; Imprint 2.; Society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed E... more

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. At a session of the great and gener...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 42.

An elegy in memory of the worshipful Major Thomas Leonard Esq. Of Taun...

Positive Photostat.; Ones Photostat and the other photograph.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies ... more

Advertisement. Whereas there was an advertisement in the Boston News L...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 45.

From the London Gazette published by authority. From Tuesday November ...

Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

Copy of the fifth & sixth articles of the Treaty of neutrality in Amer...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 51.

His Majesty’s most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Mo...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 49.

By His Excellency, Joseph Dudley, Esq. Captain General and Governor in...

Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

John Charmion’s latin epitaph from his ardent love to learning and lea...

Positive Photostat.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 33, Folder 53.

By His Excellency Samuel Shute, Esq. Captain Ganeral and Govenour in c...

Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

The town of Boston in New England

Pictorial map showing buildings. Facsimile. "Engraved from a copy in the possession of Wm. Taylor Esq. and published by George G. Smith, engraver ... Boston, 1835." Redrawn from a copy of State II (1725). "I ha... more

By the Honourable William Dummer, Esq; Lieut Governor & commander in c...

Positive Photostat.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Jeremiah Allen, Esq; Treasurer and ...

Tax warrant filled in in mss. for the town of Salem. and signed by Jeremiah Allen.; Ford 540.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... more

To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New En...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows selected buildings pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark indecipherable. Wheat & Brun no. 227. Includes index to selected buildings and embellished t... more

Boston, April 10, 1729. Reverend Sir, The New-England chronology stayi...

Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 7.

A country treat upon the second paragraph in His Excellency’s speech, ...

92 lines of verse in two columns signed S. M.; The speech referred to was that of Governor Jonathan Belcher before the Legislature Dec. 17 1730.; Ford 588.; Holmes 64.; Not in Evans. Available also through the ... more

The wages of sin; or Robbery justly rewarded; a poem occasioned by the...

The Catholic remedy. An excellent new ballad To the tune of, To all yo...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 25.

The life of faith: exemplified and recommended in a letter found in th...

Differs from the copy in Evans and Ford.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford.; Imprint 2.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML.... more

This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousan...

Filled in in mss for Frances Miller.; Ford 745.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collectio... more

[Bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with two vignettes of Nativ...

Title devised by Library staff. Similar view of Boston incorporating lower left vignette of Native hunting was engraved by J. Turner and published in the American Magazine, 1745 August, title page.

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America with t...

Scale ca. 1:5,700. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

[View of Boston] / J. Turner.

Print shows bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with view of Native hunting and a palm tree in the foreground. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Bo... more

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governour and command...

An act passed by the great and General Court or Assembly of His Majest...

Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 44.

At a great and General court of Assembly for the Province of the Massa...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 46.

[Title page of "The Independent Advertiser, Boston, May 22, 1749"]

Illus. of Brittania? cutting string, releasing bird to fly over water; text is "a recapitulation of the affairs of Europe for the year 1748". Reference copy may be in LOT 4625. This record contains unverified, ... more

A mournful lamentation for the sad and deplorable death of Mr. Old Ten...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Title.; On verso of copy 2: Source unknown, Sep. 18 1943.; Copy 2 formerly numbered as Portfolio 35, Folder 2a. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 35, Folder 2a. Availabl... more

A funeral elegy by way of dialogue; between death, soul, body and Jesu...

Positive Photostat.; Ford 948.; Not in Evans.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfo... more

From the Boston Weekly News-Letter. Feb. 7, 1751. [Boston, 1751].

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governour and Command...

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governour and command...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans.; Proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 7.

A poem, on the joyful news of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield’s visit in Bosto...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Verse.; Whitefield, George. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collecti... more

Anno regni Regis Georgii Secundi vicesimo septimo. A bill for further ...

Photocopy (negative) made in 1938.; Original in possession of Mr. Louis Gendron, Ottawa, Canada, in 1938. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as fu... more

Notice is hereby given to such persons as have received beating orders...

Not in Evans.; Not in Ford.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 14.

By His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; Captain-General and Governour ...

Ford 1032.; Not in Evans.; Filled in in mss. and dated Apr. 17, 1755. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Co... more

A few lines on occasion of the untimely end of Mark and Phillis, who w...

Positive Photostat.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35,... more

Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-governour and commander in chief in and...

Ford 1064.; Evans 7711. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 18a.

By His Excellency, Thomas Pownall, Esq; Captain-general and governor i...

Proclamatkon.; Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 22.

By the Honourable His Majesty’s council, of the province of the Massac...

Imprint 3.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 21.

A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North Amer...

Print shows view of Boston, Massachusetts, from Cambridge looking across the Charles River; a shortened view with reduced skyline. Title from item. Print attributed to Pierre Charles Canot.

By the honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and commande...

Imprint 3.; Proclamation.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 20.

Anno Regni Georgii II. tricesimo primo. Levying of soldiers. An act pa...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 35, Folder 23.

Grundriss von der Stadt Boston und ihren Gegenden.

Scale ca. 1:45,000. Relief shown by hachures. Plate "No. 18." "T. XVI. B." From Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande. 1758. Indexed. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 884 Available also through... more

Blazing-stars passengers of God’s wrath: in a few serious and solemn m...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Comets.; 2-86-231.25 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Col... more

To the publick. The booksellers of the town of Boston. Unwilling to im...

Positive Photostat.; Ames, Nathaniel.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfol... more

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Harrison Gray, Esq; Treasurer and r...

Tax warrant filled in in mss. for Stockbridge. and signed by Harrison Gray.; Ford 1223.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full ... more

Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By His Excellency the Governor, To ...

Filled in in mss for Moses Hawks, dated 14 March 1760 and signed T. Pownall.; Ford 1213.; Not in Evans.; On Verso: Library of Congress Manuscript Department seal. Available also through the Library of Congress ... more

To His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Captain-general and Governor i...

Ford 1264.; Not in Evans.; On verso: Exchange, Mass. Hist. Soc., July 25 1916. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ep... more

Plan de la ville et du port de Boston; capitale de la Nouvelle Anglete...

Scale ca. 1:11,300. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903. Includes text, ward index, and index t... more

Anno Regni Regis Georgii Tertii, quarto et quinto 1764. Timber in Ipsw...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 11.

By His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq; Captain-General and Governor i...

Positive Photostat.; Thanksgiving proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36... more

The following thoughts came from a youth scarce 15 Messi’rs Drapers. B...

Mayhew, Jonathan.; Imprint 2.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 16.

At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of B...

Positive Photostat.; Stamp act.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 du... more

[Broadside concerning repeal of Stamp Act, printed in Boston, May 16, ...

Reference copy may be in 4412 AB. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: US Hist.; Shelf.

Glorious news. Boston. Friday 11 o’clock, 16th May 1766 This instant a...

Positive Photostat.; Stamp act.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 du... more

Glorious news. Boston. Friday 11 o’clock, 16th May 1766 This instant a...

1083 B2 F 16 43.; Evans 10317.; On Verso: C 473/1 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... more

A new and true relation, of a little girl in the County of Hartford, a...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 19.

A few lines on Magnus Mode, Richard Hodges & J. Newington Clark. Who a...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection... more

The true sons of liberty and supporters of the non-importation agreeme...

Positive Photostat.; Evans 11097.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 4 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection;... more

Proposals for printing by subscription the miser: or, the soldies [bla...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 3... more

The life and dying speech of Arthur, a negro man who was executed at W...

Positive Photostat.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 26.

Description of the pope. 1769. [Massachusetts 1769].Province of Massac...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... more

Province of Massachusetts-Bay. The Honorable Harrison Gray, Esq; Treas...

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America with t...

Scale ca. 1:5,700. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC copy annotated in ink. On bottom of the sheet, covered with a heavy outer neat line: Engraved and printed by Fra. Dewing, Boston NE. 1722. Sold ... more

The merchants and traders in this town in the agreement subscribed by ...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ford 1503, Evans 11184. Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in... more

[Boston Harbour, with the surroundings, &c.

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Dept... more

The massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770, ...

Print shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston. Title from item. Caption continues: in which Messrs Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were killed, six other woun... more

William Jackson, an importer; at the Brazen Head, North side of the To...

Positive Photostat.; Jackson, William.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfo... more

[A tarred and feathered man standing on hands and feet with a rope att...

Title from item. Possibly from series published by Carrington Bowles; see Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5232. Forms part of: Briti... more

A funeral elegy, on the Revd. And renowned George Whitefield, chaplain...

Positive Photostat.; Differs from another issue which has cut of coffin and skull and cross bones at head. Also differs in size.; Whitefield, George.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web s... more

A few thoughts compose’d on the sudden & awful death of Mrs. Fessenden...

Positive Photostat.; Verse.; Not in Evans.; Not in Ford. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Por... more

A funeral elegy, on the Rev’d and renowned George Whitefield, Chaplain...

Positive Photostat.; Another issue lacks the cut of coffin and skull and cross bones; Verse.; Whitefield, George.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimil... more