By His Excellency the governour. Whereas it hath been of absolute necessity, that a certain number of men should be impressed, for the service of Their Majesties, in defence of this their province, both at sea and land, against the common enemy. And that some persons employed therein, have passed the bounds of their duty, and my order, by putting the same in execution in a violent and disorderly manner ... Given at Boston, and dated the 27th day of July, 1692.

Title
By His Excellency the governour. Whereas it hath been of absolute necessity, that a certain number of men should be impressed, for the service of Their Majesties, in defence of this their province, both at sea and land, against the common enemy. And that some persons employed therein, have passed the bounds of their duty, and my order, by putting the same in execution in a violent and disorderly manner ... Given at Boston, and dated the 27th day of July, 1692.
Author
Massachusetts. Governor (1692-1695 : Phips).
Publication
[Boston] :: Printed by Benjamin Harris, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council.,
1692.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
Vice.
Massachusetts -- Moral conditions.
Massachusetts -- Militia.
United States -- History -- King William's War, 1689-1697.
Broadsides.
Link to this Item
https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N00495.0001.001
Cite this Item
"By His Excellency the governour. Whereas it hath been of absolute necessity, that a certain number of men should be impressed, for the service of Their Majesties, in defence of this their province, both at sea and land, against the common enemy. And that some persons employed therein, have passed the bounds of their duty, and my order, by putting the same in execution in a violent and disorderly manner ... Given at Boston, and dated the 27th day of July, 1692." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N00495.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

Actions

View entire text

Contents

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.