@article{681836, note = {Signed: James Bowdoin. By His Excellency's command, John Avery, Jun. secretary.}, author = {Bowdoin, James, and Bowdoin, James, and Adams, Thomas, and Nourse, John,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/681836}, title = {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 ... [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Printed by Adams and Nourse, printers to the General Court,}, recid = {681836}, pages = {1 sheet :}, address = {Boston :}, year = {1787}, }