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Military duties recommended to an artillery company; at their election of officers, in Charls-town, 13. d. 7. m. 1686. By Cotton Mather, pastor of a church in Boston.
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Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.
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Wing M1128; ESTC W479523
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