Title: Address by Governor James Bowdoin to the Massachusetts General Court
Description: Clipping from the first leaf of the Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser, June 14, 1786 of a news section titled "America" with an address by Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin. The article reproduces an address by Bowdoin to the Massachusetts General Court on June 2, 1786 that mentions Harvard and in which Bowdoin recommended the General Court "confirm to the college all the land grants that have been made to it as above mentioned; and to secure to it one share in all such townships, as may hereafter be granted."
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Sources, Finance, Harvard University, Massachusetts. General Court, Massachusetts
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: 18th century, 1775-1783