To His Excellency John Hancock, Esquire, governor of the state of Massachusetts.
Subtitle: Being impressed upon the mind, being a beggar, under the divine operation of the spirit of God ... feeling in my mind to running to the rulers of the state, to do the will of my Heavenly Father, to say to the rulers, repeal your bloody laws, for they are offensive against God ...
Contributors: Hancock, John, 1737-1793.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 45033.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: [Boston?
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Abuse of administrative power -- Massachusetts.; Christian life.; Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787.; Broadsides.; Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
Notes: Condemning the tyrannical power of government in Massachusetts and the violence of Shays' Rebellion, and warning the governor that "the cries of the oppressed have reached the ears of the Lord."

Signed: Christopher Babbitt, of Lanesborough, in the county of Berkshire.--------If I am worthy of death, I refuse not to die.

Text in two columns; printed area measures 33.2 x 21.2 cm.

Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.

Bristol B6445.

Shipton & Mooney 45033.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45033).