Boston 3d December 1689: At the convention of the governour, and Council, and representatives of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay. It having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many frowns upon us in the summer past ... It is therefore ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth of December instant, be kept as a day of thanksgiving throughout this colony ...

Boston 3d December 1689: At the convention of the governour, and Council, and representatives of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay. It having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many frowns upon us in the summer past ... It is therefore ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth of December instant, be kept as a day of thanksgiving throughout this colony ...

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Boston 3d December 1689. AT THE CONVENTION Of the Governour, and Council, and Representatives of the Colony of the Massachusets Bay.

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Boston 3d December 1689. AT THE CONVENTION Of the Governour, and Council, and Representatives of the Colony of the Massachusets Bay.

IT having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many Frowns upon us in the Summer past, with a mixture of some very signal Favours, and in the midst of Wrath so far to remember Mercy; That our Indian Enemies have had a Check put upon their Designs of Blood and Spoil: that others have not seen their Desires accomplished upon us: And that we have such hopes of our God's adding yet more perfection to our Deliverances; Inasmuch also, as the great God hath of late raised up such a Defence to the Protestant Religion and Interest abroad in the World, especially in the happy accession of Their Majesties our Sovereigns, KING William and QƲEEN Mary to the Throne:

It is therefore Ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth of December instant, be kept as a Day of Thanksgiving throughout this Colony; And all Servile Labour on said Day is hereby inhibited. And the several Ministers and Assemblies are Exhorted to Observe the same by Celebrating the just Praises of Almighty God, of whose tender Mercies it is that we are not consumed.

By Order of the CONVENTION, Isaac Addington Secr'.

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Boston 3d December 1689: At the convention of the governour, and Council, and representatives of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay. It having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many frowns upon us in the summer past ... It is therefore ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth of December instant, be kept as a day of thanksgiving throughout this colony ...

Massachusetts. Governor (1689-1692 : Bradstreet).

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2009-04.

ID [DLPS]

N29482

ID [TCP]

N29482

ID [STC]

Evans 485

ID [STC]

Shipton 39259

ID [STC]

Wing M990A

ID [NOTIS]

APY8054

ID [IMAGE-SET]

39259

ID [EVANS-CITATION]

99035538

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Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 ; no. 485.Early American Imprints, 1639-1800 ; no. 39259.

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(Evans-TCP ; no. N29482)

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— Boston 3d December 1689: At the convention of the governour, and Council, and representatives of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay. It having pleased the God of Heaven to mitigate His many frowns upon us in the summer past ... It is therefore ordered, that Thursday the nineteenth of December instant, be kept as a day of thanksgiving throughout this colony ..., Massachusetts. Governor (1689-1692 : Bradstreet)., Bradstreet, Simon, 1603-1697., Massachusetts. General Court..

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Printed by Samuel and Bartholomew Green,. [Boston :: 1689]. (Signed: By order of the convention, Isaac Addington secr'.) (Evans supplies imprint: [Cambridge: Printed by Samuel Green. 1689]. However, this item was included on a printers' bill presented to the General Court by Bartholomew Green, who, in 1689, was printing for his brother Samuel in Boston, rather than for the elder Samuel Green at Cambridge.)

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