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Early Colonial Addresses and New York City Proclamation
The excerpt recounts a formal exchange where New York City's mayor, recorder, aldermen, and commonalty address the Crown, and the governor responds promising to govern with ease and happiness for subjects. It notes merchants and inhabitants sending an address, with the governor pledging to secure royal favor. Also cited is a Boston Proclamation dissolving the General Assembly and news of a Rhode Island schooner wreck with loss of captain and three crew, only one Native American survivor.
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New York
Colony of
America
City of
Boston
New England
James Emmet
Rhode Island