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- GLC#
- GLC06657.02
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- October 25, 1774
- Author/Creator
- Boston (Mass.). Committee of Donations
- Title
- [Request for donations for the poor of Boston]
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 38.1 cm, Width: 23.7 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Broadside listing the twenty six members of the committee (including Samuel Adams, Thomas Boylston, and John Adams) seeks donations in accord with their mission to relieve the "Poor, suffering by means of the Act of Parliament, commonly called the Boston Port-Bill." Discusses the plans and projects supported by the committee. Accompanied Samuel Adams's letter to Ezekiel Williams seeking a donation (see GLC06657.01). The verso mentions a meeting on 25 October 1774 in which ten members joined the committee; their names are listed.
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