The history and antiquities of Boston .. . May 13. funds thus arising were to be applied towards de-fraying the charges of this Government. The Actwent into effect on the first of May, and on that day 0Lthe News-Letter appeared with a stamp, which occu- ifpied a place near the right-hand corner near the foot %\^of the first page. It is very exactly represented in ^-the annexed engraving.* Governor Shirley was chiefly occupied inthe military affairs of the Country. He visitedGeneral Braddock at Alexa^idria, in Vir-ginia, relative to the campaign now inprogress against the French, and returned t
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . May 13. funds thus arising were to be applied towards de-fraying the charges of this Government. The Actwent into effect on the first of May, and on that day 0Lthe News-Letter appeared with a stamp, which occu- ifpied a place near the right-hand corner near the foot %\^of the first page. It is very exactly represented in ^-the annexed engraving.* Governor Shirley was chiefly occupied inthe military affairs of the Country. He visitedGeneral Braddock at Alexa^idria, in Vir-ginia, relative to the campaign now inprogress against the French, and returned toBoston on the 13th of May. He had beenhere but one month and ten days when thenews arrived of the defeat of Braddock, andthe destruction of the army. And probablythe additional news also reached the Governor,that in that defeat his son William, who wasone of the Generals Aids, had been killed. War news had been for some time the mostprominent topic of the Town, and it was keptalive by arrivals of various accounts from the frontiers, and
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