By the Honourable William Dummer Esq; ... A proclamation.
Subtitle: Whereas within some short time past many fires have broke out within the town of Boston, and divers buildings have been thereby consumed; which fires have been designedly and industriously kindled by some villanous & desperate Negroes, or other dissolute people ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the fifteenth day of April, 1723. ...
Contributors: Dummer, William, 1677-1761.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 39797.
Publisher: Printed by B. Green, printer to his honour the lieut. governour and Council.
Published: 1723
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Arson -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Fires -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; African American criminals -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Bounties -- Massachusetts.; Broadsides.; Boston (Mass.) -- Fires and fire prevention.
Notes: Offering a reward of fifty pounds to anyone who "shall discover the said offenders so as that they be rendered to justice, and by law convicted of the said crimes ..." Signed: By order of the lieutenant governour, with the advice of the Council, W. Dummer. Josiah Willard, secr.

Bristol B659.

Shipton & Mooney 39797.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 498.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 39797).