1756 MASSACHUSETTS BAY TAX STAMP WITH BOSTON MASSACRE BOOK (LOT OF 2).

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Embossed tax seal for III Pence issued by the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The seal bears a Pine Tree device, later adopted as the canton for the Massachusetts Navy flag in 1775. It is affixed to the estate attachment of John Porter of Danvers, the partially-printed document signed by Essex County Clerk of Court Joseph Bowditch at Salem, on November 30, 1756 and with summons docketed and signed on recto by Samuel Chipman, Sheriff, dated December 9, 1756. CONDITION: very good; original document temporarily mounted to typed information sheet by mylar corners attached to support sheet, easily removed. [with] [Bowdoin, James] "A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, March 5, 1770. Boston. by the Soldiers of the 29th Regiment. Printed by order of the Town of Boston." Boston: Edes and Gill, 1849. Rare reprint of the original 1772 edition. Octavo, 122 pp., map and plate, in original, embossed cloth binding. CONDITION: Ex libris copy, pages clean and bright. JLK