Spencer Phips

Spencer Phips (June 6, 1685 – April 4, 1757) was a government official in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Born Spencer Bennett, he was adopted by Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips, his uncle by marriage, whose name he legally took. Phips served for many years in the provincial assembly, and on the governor's council, before receiving an appointment as lieutenant governor in 1732, a post he held until his death. He was twice formally acting governor. Provided by Wikipedia
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : For the encouragement of persons to inlist into his majesty's service in the expedition under the command of His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Loudoun for the defence of his majesty's colonies ... Give at Boston, the twenty-fifth day of February 1757 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas upon consideration of the great importance of the expedition now carrying on against the French fort at Crown Point, and the great necessity of having a force sufficient ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the ninth day of September 1755 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twenty-eighth day of this instant August ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the 13th day of August 1755 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation : ... to appoint Thursday the eighth day of January next, to be observed as a day of publick humiliation and prayer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-fourth day of December 1755 ...
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    Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. By His Honour the Lieutenant Governour. To [blank] greeting : Whereas the great and general court or assembly of said Province, have by their vote of the 8th instant, desired me to give orders to impress a sufficient number of men ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq ... A declaration of war against the Eastern and Canada Indians : ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-third day of August, 1745. ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for encouragement to voluntiers to prosecute the war against the Indian enemy : Whereas the Indians of the Penobscot and Norridgewack tribes, and other eastern Indians ... have by their violation of their solemn treaties ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the twenty-third day of August, 1745. ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas upon Wednesday the twentieth of this instant November, at night, great disorders were committed within the town of Boston, by divers officers and seamen ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston the twenty-second day of November 1745. ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a general thanksgiving : ... Thursday the fifth day of December next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston the twenty-fifth day of November 1745. ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas divers persons have received beating orders for the raising the recruits for his majesty's garrison at Louisbourg ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the eleventh day of October 1745. ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a publick fast : ... Thursday the nineteenth of this instant September ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the sixth day of September 1745.
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas information has been given to this government, that Samuel Ball and Benjamin Ledyke alias Benjamin Dite, who were apprehended for the murther of an Indian at Wiscasset ... were in the town of Falmouth, in a riotous and outragious manner ... rescued out of the hands of the said officer ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the twenty-eighth day of December 1749 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation for a general thanksgiving : ... Thursday the sixteenth of November next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, upon Friday the twentieth day of October 1749 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation for proroguing the General Assembly : ... unto Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of September next ... Given at Cambridge, the thirteenth day of August, 1750 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation for proroguing the General Assembly : ... to the ninth day of January next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the seventh day of December, 1750 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a publick fast : ... Thursday the fifteenth of March next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the sixteenth day of February 1749 [1750 N.S.]. ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation for proroguing the General Assembly : ... to Wednesday the nineteenth day of December next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the sixteenth day of November, 1750 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant-governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a publick thanksgiving : ... Thursday the first of November next ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the tenth day of October, 1750 ... ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; ... A proclamation : Whereas there has been lately published and dispersed within this province, an anonymous paper in the form of a ballad, called, a Sad and deplorable lamentation, &c.--wherein are contained many expressions horribly prophane and impious ... and tend very much to weaken, if not subvert the happy constitution of this government: and whereas one Robert Howland of Duxbury, and one Fobes Little of Little-Compton, are informed against for industriously publishing and dispersing, and one or both of them strongly suspected to be the authors of the paper aforesaid ... Given at the Council-chamber in Boston, the eighteenth day of April 1751 ...
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    By the Honourable Spencer Phips, Esq; lieutenant governour ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. A proclamation for a general fast : ... Thursday the twenty-first of March next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the twenty-seventh day of February 1750 [1751 N.S.] ...
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