(MASSACHUSETTS) Newspaper coverage of the Great Fire of 1760

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Newspaper coverage of the Great Fire of 1760 in the Boston News-Letter. 4 pages, 14 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; dampstaining, heavy wear at folds with some loss of text at inner columns. Boston, 27 March 1760

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Issued a week after the 20 March 1760 fire, with several related articles: an address by Governor Pownall offering sympathy to 'the "eye-witnesses of the dreadful devastation"; the Governor's plea for charitable donations from the churches of Massachusetts; and a note that the light of the fire had been observed in Portsmouth, NH, sixty miles to the north.