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Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790 A proclamation

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03538 Author/Creator: Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Broadside Date: 2 September 1786 Pagination: 1 p. ; 38 x 25 cm. Order a Copy

Issued as Governor of Massachusetts. Gives a brief account of the rebel mobs storming the Court of Common Pleas in Northampton. Calls upon all civil & military officers to suppress Shays' Rebellion.

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

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