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    An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City
    An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City
    An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City
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    An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City

    By Charles Sprague

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City

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      An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830, at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City - Charles Sprague

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      by Charles Sprague

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      Title: An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, September the Seventeenth, 1830,

      at the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the City

      Author: Charles Sprague

      Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22626]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ODE PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE INHABITANTS OF BOSTON ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness, David Wilson and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      1 AN

      ODE:

      PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE

      INHABITANTS OF BOSTON,

      SEPTEMBER THE SEVENTEENTH, 1830,

      AT THE

      CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION

      OF THE

      SETTLEMENT OF THE CITY.

      BY CHARLES SPRAGUE.

      BOSTON:

      JOHN H. EASTBURN … CITY PRINTER.

      MDCCCXXX.

      2 CITY OF BOSTON.

      In Common Council, September 17, 1830.

      Ordered, That the Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of this day be, and they are hereby, directed to present the thanks of the City Council to Charles Sprague, Esquire, for the elegant, interesting and instructive Poem, this day pronounced by him, and respectfully request a copy thereof for the press.

      Sent up for Concurrence,

      B. T. PICKMAN, President.

      In the Board of Aldermen, September 20, 1830.

      Read and concurred.

      H. G. OTIS, Mayor.

      A true copy—Attest,

      S. F. M’CLEARY, City Clerk.

      Boston, September 17, 1830.

      Charles Sprague, Esq.

      The Undersigned, the Committee of Arrangements for the Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Boston, have the honor to enclose you an attested copy of a vote of the City Council, and respectfully ask your compliance with the request contained therein.

      Harrison Gray Otis,

      Benjamin Russell,

      Winslow Lewis,

      Benjamin T. Pickman,

      Thomas Minns,

      Joseph Eveleth,

      John W. James,

      John P.

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