Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790 A proclamation

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GLC#
GLC03538
Type
Broadsides, posters & signs
Date
2 September 1786
Author/Creator
Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790
Title
A proclamation
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 38 cm, Width: 25 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

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.

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