Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England; December, 12. 1715. Samuel Sewall Esq; judge for the probate of wills, and granting letters of administration, within the county of Suffolk; purposes, God willing, to wait upon that business, at his dwelling house in Boston, every second day of the week ...

Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County).2007-01

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Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

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By His EXCELLENCY, Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Captain General and GOVERNOUR in Chief in and over the said Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, &c. A Proclamation.

WHEREAS the Great and General Court or Assembly of his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay aforesaid, begun and held at Boston upon Wednesday the Thirty-first of May 1699. is continued by Prorogation unto Wednesday the Twenty-fourth of April instant.

And there being nothing in prospect necessary for his Majesties Service, to require the meeting of said Court at the time appointed according to the said Prorogation; the business of Husbandry being also urgent at this season, and the time near at hand for an Anniversary choice of Representatives for a Great and General Court to be Convened held and kept, upon the last Wednesday of May, as in and by his Majesties Royal Charter is directed.

I have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Majesties Council, to Dissolve the present Great and General Court or Assembly, continued upon Prorogation unto the Twenty-fourth of April instant: And the said Great and General Court or Assembly is hereby Dissolved accordingly. Of which all persons concerned are to take notice, and accordingly to conform themselves.

Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, the Sixteenth day of April, in the Twelfth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord WILLIAM the Third, by the Grace of GOD of England, Scotland, France and Ireland KING, Defender of the Faith &c. Annoque Domini. 1700.

BELLOMONT. By Order of His Excellency & Council. Isaac Addington Secr.

GOD Save the King.

BOSTON, Printed by Bartholomew Green, and John Allen, Printers to His Excellency the GOVERNOUR and COUNCIL. 1700.

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