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6. Medal in honor of Admiral Boscawen on the Capture of Louis

burg.

Obverse. Head and Bust in armor, and a flowing wig.

Legend. ADML. BOSCAWEN TOOK CAPE BRETON.

Reverse. View of Louisburg bombarded by the fleet. At the top of the medal Louisbourg.

Exergue. July 26, 1768.

7. Medal struck by the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce on the taking of Quebec. Diameter 13 inch.

Obverse. Female Head, and above it the word BRITANNIA-below a garland, through which are crossed a trident and an antique military standard surmounted by a lion. Under the trident the name SAUNDERS, under the standard, woLFE.

Reverse. Military trophies on a tree which Victory is crowning with a wreath-holding in her left hand a palm branch. To the foot of the tree an Indian is bound.

Legend. QUEBEC TAKEN MDCCLIX.

Exergue. Soc: P. A. C.

8. Medal struck by the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce, on the taking of Montreal. Diameter 1 inch.

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Obverse. Figure of France seated under a pine tree weeping; by her side the shield, with club and axe-on the shield fleurs de lys and the letter L.-behind her (at the left), on a rock, an eagle flapping his wings.

Legend. MONTREAL TAKEN MDCCLX.

Exergue. SOC. PROMOTING ARTS AND COMMERCE.

Reverse. Figure of Neptune reclining on the prow of a galley with an oar in his left hand-a beaver running up his left leg-above, surrounded by a wreath, the name AMHERST, and above the wreath, as a crest, a lion passant regardant.

In the Exergue, the shield of France and Indian armor reversed. Legend. THE CONQUEST OF CANADA COMPLEATED.

9. Medal on the Conquest of Canada, struck by the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce. Diameter 11⁄2 inch.

Obverse. Head of George II.

Legend. GEORGE II. KING.

Reverse. Female figure seated under a tree weeping-a beaver creeping on the other side (left).

Legend. CANADA subdued.

Exergue. MDCCLX. s.p.a.C.

10. Medal of George II. In honor of the victories of his Generals in the war with France, ending in 1760. Diameter 17 inch.

Obverse. Head and bust of George II.

mor, with ribbon and star of the garter. Legend. GEORGIUS II. REX.

crowned with laurel-in ar

Reverse. In the centre shield with fleur de lys reversed, and the motto encircling it PERFIDIA EVERSA. Supporters, crowned lion and unicorn-on a scroll below, w. PITT. AUSP. GEO. II. PR. MI. Below, the date MDCCLIX. Around the medal the places and dates of the victories, with the name of the commander under each,

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viz.

QUEBEC.

WOLFE..

MONCT'N. TOWNS'D.

SEP. 13 & 18.

MINDEN.

FERDINAND.

AUG. 1.

11. Medal of George II. in honor of victories in the same war. Diameter 17 inch.

Obverse. Head of George II. as in the last medal.

Reverse. Britannia in a triumphal car, drawn by a lion, and supported by Liberty and Justice, with their appropriate emblems-below, MDCCLVII-above the figures, in a scroll, FŒDUS INVICTUM. Around the medal, arranged as in the last, the places and dates of victories, and names of commanders, viz. LOUISBOURGH. JUL. 27.

BOSCAWEN. AMHERST.

GOREE. DEC. 29.

KEPPEL.

S. MALO. JUN. 16.

MARLBRO'.

FRONTI. AUG. 27. DUQUESNE. NOV. 21.

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12. Medal-probably for distribution among the Indians. Obverse. A View of Montreal, and above it the name MONTREAL. Reverse. The name мOHIGHANS.

13. Medal struck on the repeal of the Stamp Act. Diameter 1 in. Obverse. Head in profile, probably Lord Chatham's.

Legend. THE RESTORER OF COMMERCE. 1766; and underneath,

NO STAMPS.

Reverse. A ship in full sail-in front of her bows the word AMERICA. Legend. THANKS TO THE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY AND TRADE.

14. Medal in honor of Lord Chatham. Diameter 13 inch. Obverse. Head of Lord Chatham.

Legend. GULIElmus pitt.

Reverse. Inscription: THE MAN WHO HAVING-SAVED THE—

PARENT PLEADED-WITH SUCCESS-FOR HER-CHILDREN.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF DONATIONS.

The thanks of the Massachusetts Historical Society are presented for the following donations.

CHARLES LOWELL, Corresponding Secretary.

List of Donations from Jan. 1833, to May 29, 1834, omitted in the two last volumes.

Sumner's Lecture on Speculative Masonry.

Presented by the Author.
Mr. Nathan Rice.

Powder-horn taken from the Guerriere. Discourse on the Anniversary of the Landing at Plymouth; Dudleian Lecture; Discourse before the Congregational Society in WaterRev. Convers Francis.

town.

Indian Biography; Farmer's Almanac, 1832; American Comic Almanac, 1832; History of Quincy; Speeches on the Indian Bill, 1830; History of Belfast, with Remarks on Acadia, by William White, 1827; History of the United States, by a Citizen of Massachusetts, 1824; Present State of New-England as to the Indian War-printed 1675, &c. Mr. Samuel G. Drake.

M. Tullii Ciceronis Orationum pars prima, 1567; Cicero de Officiis, Amicitia, Senectute, Paradoxa, et de Somnio Scipionis, 1629; Saybrook Platform of 1708.

William T. Williams, Esq. of Lebanon, Conn. Map of the original town of Newbury, 1830.

Moses Pettingell, Esq.

Life of George Washington, 2d edition, 1832.

Copper Coin of James II., 1690.
Sadducismus Triumphatus, 1681.

Hon. John Marshall. Mr. Charles Brintnall. Charles C. Parsons, Esq.

A Dissertation on the Origin of the American Population, by Professor Vater, translated by Mr. Duponceau, MS.; Eulogium on the late Judge Tilghman, LL.D., by P. S. Duponceau.

Mr. P. S. Duponceau, of Philadelphia.

Boston Gazette, from January 1, 1754 to April 1, 1755, with some numbers deficient; No. 627 of do.; No. 506 of New-England Weekly Journal; No. 704 of Boston Evening Post; No. 2707 of Boston Weekly News Letter; No. 37 of Boston Gazette or Country Journal; Nos. 880, 883 and 1986 of do. ; No. 3764 of Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News Letter; No. 2191 of Boston Gazette and Weekly Republican Journal; Governor Leverett's Commission, MS. to Captain Thomas Smith, 1676, to transport and sell 70 of the captive Indians; Governor Winslow's Commission, MS. to Captain Smith, 1676, to transport and sell 110 Indian captives; Governor Leverett's Pass for said Smith, MS., 1677; Governor Phipps's Commission, MS. to N. Williams as Captain of Militia, 1693; General Gage's Letter of June 25, 1775, to Earl of Dartmouth, containing an official account of Bunker Hill Battle; Proceedings of the Provincial Convention at

Concord, October 6, 1779, to regulate prices of Merchandise, &c. ; Proclamation of Provincial Congress for Fast, April 15, 1775; General William Johnson's Letter from Lake George, 1755; Votes of Boston, 1773, relative to East India Company Tea; Convention at Concord, 1779, about prices of Merchandise-and an Address; Print of the Thirteen States united in a ring; MS. copy of the Laws of Harvard College, in Latin, as adopted November 22, 1692, &c. Mr. Thomas Whittemore. History of Portland, by William Willis. The Author. Beawe's Lex Mercatoria; French Prayer Book; Les Pseaumes de David, ed. 1756; Poesies de Malherbe, ed. 1777; La Sainte Bible, ed. 1761. Dr. Gamaliel Bradford.

A Survey of England's Champions and Truth's Faithful Patriots, by Josiah Recraft, 1647; a volume containing a Letter from some aged Non-conforming Ministers to their Christian Friends touching the Reasons of their Practice, 1701; Sermons, &c. I. P. Davis, Esq. Collection of Indian Arrow-Heads.

John Gray, Esq. of Kingston. Sermon, by Rev. Jasper Adams, before the Episcopal Convention, S. C.; Address before the Euphradian Society of Charleston College, S. C.

Catalogue of Williams College, 1832.

The Author.

Dr. Jacob Porter, Plainfield, Conn. Collections of Virginia Historical Society, Part I., Vol. I., &c.

The Society.

Stedman's History of the American Revolutionary War.

Mr. Tudor.

Jared Sparks, Esq. Dr. John C. Howard. Joseph E. Worcester, Esq.

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Spanish American Newspapers, 4 vols. ; a large box of Spanish American and other pamphlets. Portrait of Dr. John Clark. Warden's Bibliotheca Americana. Portrait of Governor John Winthrop; Reports of the Committees of the House of Commons, 1771, 2, 3,-2 vols., 3d and 4th-folio ; Journals of the House of Lords, 1768 to 1773, Nos. 32, 33, fol.-and Journals of the House of Commons, 1772 to 1798, Nos. 34 to 52, fol.; Index of these Journals up to the 45th vol., in 5 vols. folio; History of Peru, 2 vols. fol.; History of Florida, 2 vols. fol.-these two works are in Spanish; Costume of a Peruvian young Lady.

1833.

Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop. Hitchcock's Geology of Massachusetts. Legislature of Mass. Edw. Everett's Address before the P.B.K. Society of Yale College, The Author. American Quarterly Register, November, 1833; ditto for February, 1834. American Education Society. Report of the Attorney General to Massachusetts Legislature, 1834. Hon. James. T. Austin.

Catalogue of Books relative to America, in the Collection of Colonel Colonel Aspinwall.

Aspinwall, Consul of U. S. in London.

British American Orderly Book at Boston, 1776.

Theodore Dwight, Jr., Esq. Documents of the First Session of 22d Congress. U. S. Congress. Business Letter in Arabic, signed by Mohammed Abdul Cada; Arabic Account Current; Letter in the Surat language; Arabic Letters; Ten Commandments in Latin, Portuguese, English, and Mahratta; Cingalese, Hindostanee, and other Tracts; Asiatic Calendar; Waghorn's Address on Steam Navigation between India and England, 1833; Captain J. H. Wilson on Steam Communication between Bombay and Suez, 1833. Mr. Isaiah W. P. Lewis.

Gallatin's Report of the Union Committee, 1834.
Lemuel Shattuck, Esq.
A sheet of the Yeas and Nays on General Conway's Motion in the
House of Commons, February 27, 1782, as to termination of War with
the American Colonies, with some Remarks.

Hon. Thomas Beekman, of New-York.
The Author.

History of Attleborough, by John Dagget.
The Farmer's Weekly Museum; New Hampshire and Vermont
Journal, vols. 5, 6, 7 and 8, in one volume, beginning October 9, 1797;
American Herald for 1785, and Independent Ledger and American
Advertiser for 1785, 2 vols. in one.
Dr. W. P. Greenwood.

Appendix to Vol. 9th of Dane's General Abridgment of American Law. The Author. Tractate on Church Music, 1786; Discourse on the Death of Rev. Dr. Buckminster, by Rev. Nathan Parker, 1812; Simeon Doggett's Sermon at the Ordination of his Son, Theophilus P. Doggett, 1833; Statement of Premiums of the Humane Society of Massachusetts, 1829. Rev. Dr. Lowell.

Discourse about Civil Government in a new Plantation, by Cotton H. Davenport, printed 1663. John Farmer, Esq. Description of New Sweden, by T. C. Holm,-translated by P. S. Duponceau, LL.D., 1834. Dr. James Mease, Philadelphia. Mr. Woodward.

Portrait of Rev. Dr. Charles Chauncy.

List of Donations from June 30, 1836, to June 29, 1837.

Bound MS. of Rev. John Barnard; Memoirs of the First Settlement of Barbadoes. Colonel S. Swett.

A volume of Tracts, relative to a Bank of Credit, &c.; 13 Pamphlets; J. L. Homer's Address before the Massachusetts C. M. Association, 1836; Influence of the Ministry at large in Boston, 1836; Dr. J. B. Whitridge's Oration, S. C., 1835; Annual Report of Prison Discipline Society, 1836; Centennial Discourse, by John Pitman, of Providence, 1836; Report of Seaman's Aid Society, 1837; Election Sermon, by Rev. D. Dana, D. D., 1837; Speech of Mr. Cowin on Reduction of the Revenue, 1837; Sermon, entitled the Good Merchant, 1837. Rev. Alexander Young. Documents of Treasury Department, 24th Congress; Letter of the

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