Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources -- Early works to 1800

Being the anniversary of their election of officers by John Lathrop, A.M. pastor of the Second Church in Boston. Half-title: Mr. Lathrop's artillery-election sermon. Running title: Artillery election sermon. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ (E4 verso blank). "Errata" on page 39. Errors in pagination: page 34 numbered as p. 43. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: portions of pages [5] and 39 torn with some loss of text; edges trimmed to 19 cm. Rebound in contemporary patterned leather binding with gold tooling on spine.

Half-title: Oration delivered March fifth, 1776. Notes: "This oration against standing armies was delivered at Watertown during the siege of Boston, and is said to be the rarest of all the separate issues of the Boston massacre orations. Its popularity was so great that it was frequently reprinted."--Church catalogue, vol. 5, page 2258. On page [4]: "At a meeting of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, legally assembled at Watertown, March 5th, 1776... Attest. William Cooper, town-clerk." Signatures: [A]² B-D² (D2 blank). Title within mourning border (double rule). FAU Libraries' own two copies. First copy edges trimmed to 20 cm., side stiched with brown cord. Second copy imperfect: half-title page, title page, and verso wanting. Title page and verso supplied in photostat facsimile. Page [5], has inscription in ink: Peter Thacher 1776. Bound in marbled paper on cardboard covers; inside of front cover has label: The property of Samuel Doggett.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴. Errata on last unnumbered page. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy untrimmed; side stiched with brown cord.

Half-title: Mr. Hitchcock's sermon. December 22d, 1774. Notes: Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ F². FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: edges rough-trimmed to 18 cm. and too closely to outer margins; half-title page missing. Side stiched with brown cord.

Shewn in two sermons, preached at Worcester, upon a special fast observed there, as well as in many other towns, July 14th, 1774. On account of the public difficulties of the present day. Half-title: Mr. Maccarty's two sermons on a special fast. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ (E4 verso blank). Engraved head-piece. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: Half-title page and page [39] missing. Edges untrimmed, side stiched with brown cord.

Being the day recommended by the Provincial Congress, to be observed in thanksgiving to God for the blessings enjoyed ; and humiliation on account of public calamities by John Lathrop, A.M. Pastor of the Second Church in Boston. Half-title: Mr. Lathrop's thanksgiving discourse. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ (E4 verso blank). "Errata": page 39. Includes bibliographical references.

On a day set apart for fasting and prayer, on account of approaching public calamities. Published by request. Half-title: Mr. Webster's fast-sermon. July 14, 1774. Misery and duty of an oppressed and enslaved people. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ (D4 verso blank). Engraved head-piece, initial frame. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' own two copies. First copy housed in an enclosure with title on spine. Second copy disbound, edges trimmed to 20 cm.

by Dr. Benjamin Church ; [Seven lines from Virgil]. 4th edition. Half-title: Oration, delivered March 5th, 1773. On verso of title-page, "At a meeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants of the town of Boston, duly assembled at Faneuil-hall..., on Friday the fifth of March, anno domini 1773... Attest. William Cooper, town clerk..." Title within mourning border; with head piece. Includes bibliographical references.

Delivered at the Second Baptist-Church in Boston. Upon the last annual thanksgiving. Humbly dedicated to the Right-Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth. Published by the request of many. Uniform Title: Oration on the beauties of liberty, or The essential rights of the Americans.This is 2nd ed. corrected. Half-title: Oration upon the beauties of liberty delivered on the annual Thanksgiving, December 3d, 1772. Notes: Authorship based on Bumsted, John M. in "New England's Tom Paine: John Allen and the spirit of liberty," William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 21, 1964, p. [561]-570.
Attributed to Isaac Skillman, pastor of the 2d Baptist church, 1773-87, by Evans; also to John Allen in: Bumstead, John M. "New England's Tom Paine: John Allen and the spirit of liberty" William and Mary Quarterly 21 (1964): [561]-570. Dedication to the Earl of Dartmouth signed: A British Bostonian. Edition statement at head of half-title, enclosed in square brackets. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ (D4 verso blank). Engraved head- and tail-pieces, initial frame. First edition printed in Boston by D. Kneeland and N. Davis, 1773 under title: An oration on the beauties of liberty, or The essential rights of the Americans.

Being the anniversary of their election of officers. By Simeon Howard, A.M. Pastor of the West Church in Boston. Half-title: Mr. Howard's artillery-election sermon, June 7th, 1773
Running title: Artillery-sermon. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ F² (F2 verso blank). "Errata."--Page 43. Includes bibliographical references.