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A62755 To the King's Most Excellent Majesty the humble address of divers of the gentry, merchants and others, Your Majesties most loyal and dutiful subjects, inhabiting in Boston, Charlestown and places adjacent, within Your Majesties territory and dominion of New-England, in America. Hammond, Lawrence, d. 1699. 1691 (1691) Wing T1501; ESTC R10546 6,504 8

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