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- GLC#
- GLC00905
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- January 23, 1776
- Author/Creator
- Massachusetts Colony Legislature
- Title
- By the Great and General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay: A Proclamation.
- Place Written
- [Watertown, Massachusetts]
- Pagination
- 1 broadside Height: 43.8 cm, Width: 35.2 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
This document explains the Revolutionary views of the House of Representatives of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. The writing covers the philosophy behind Massachusetts as a colony and as a free state. Signed at end: "God Save the People"
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