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• By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq ; ... A brief. : It having pleased Almighty God to permit a fire to break out in the town of Boston, on the 20th instant ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twenty-fourth day of March, 1760 ...
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• By the Honourable William Dummer Esq ; ... A proclamation : Whereas within some short time past many fires have broke out within the town of Boston, and divers buildings have been thereby consumed ; which fires have been designedly and industriously kindled by some villanous & desperate Negroes, or other dissolute people ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the fifteenth day of April, 1723.
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• Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, March 24th. : an account of the terrible fire which happened in Boston, Thursday March 20th, 1760. Taken from the Boston news letter published the next day after.
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• By His Excellency Horatio Sharpe, Esq, governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland. A brief. : It having been represented to me, by His Majesty's governor of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, that on the 20th of March last, a fire broke out in the town of Boston, in such manner as to elude all means for suppressing the same, until it had (according to the best information that could be obtained) destroyed 174 dwelling-houses, and as many warehouses, shops and other buildings ...
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