By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation Whereas I have received information, that divers attempts have been made, by some evil-minded person or persons, to communicate the small-pox to the family of Benjamin Lynde, Esq; one of his majesty's Council for this province, by letters, containing the corrupt and infectious matter of the said distemper ... and by other ways and means ... and a reward of five hundred pounds old tenor, has been publickly offered by the said Benjamin Lynde ... Given under my hand at Concord, the twenty-eighth day of May 1752.

By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation Whereas I have received information, that divers attempts have been made, by some evil-minded person or persons, to communicate the small-pox to the family of Benjamin Lynde, Esq; one of his majesty's Council for this province, by letters, containing the corrupt and infectious matter of the said distemper ... and by other ways and means ... and a reward of five hundred pounds old tenor, has been publickly offered by the said Benjamin Lynde ... Given under my hand at Concord, the twenty-eighth day of May 1752.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Massachusetts. Lieutenant Governor (1732-1757 : Phips)
Other Authors: Phips, Spencer, 1685-1757
Format: Electronic eBook
Subjects:
Lynde, Benjamin, > 1700-1781.
Smallpox > Massachusetts.
Crime > Massachusetts.
Bounties > Massachusetts.
Broadsides.

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