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Boston Federal Band. Some account of its rise, and detail of the proceedings of its members : --the objects which they contemplate;--their rules of agreement--and the constitution under which they propose to act. Addressed to the citizens, to whom they acknowledge obligations--from which they have received the most animating encouragement.

Author/creator Boston Federal Band
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by Young and Minns?], [1803]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 3863. ^A575643
General noteDated: Berry-Street, Nov. 4, 1803.
General noteThe Boston Federal Band, or Federal Street Band, was a juvenile militia company organized in 1802 by John Howard Payne, and consisted of boys living in his neighborhood. It was disbanded July 11, 1805. Cf. Overmyer, G. America's first Hamlet, 1957, p. 37-38.
General noteImprint suggested by the acknowledgement, among other donations, of "occasional printing from the following gentlemen:--Major Benjamin Russell, Messrs. Russell and Cutler, Messrs. Young and Minns--they are also, happy to notice in the New-England Palladium of October 25th, an encouraging card--for which the writer and the printers of it [i.e., Young and Minns], receive the thanks of these young adventurers."
General noteText printed in two columns.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 3863
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 3863).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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