Publications Of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

    Volume LXXXVI

    Officers of the Society

    • Donald R. Friary, President
    • Robert J. Allison, Vice President
    • Daniel R. Coquillette, Vice President
    • Celeste Walker, Vice President
    • Leslie A. Morris, Recording Secretary
    • Martha J. McNamara, Corresponding Secretary
    • Thomas R. Appleton, Treasurer

    Committee of Publications

    • Kenneth P. Minkema, Chair
    • Robert Anderson
    • Mary Sarah Bilder
    • Christopher Jedrey
    • Celeste Walker

    Editor of Publications

    • John W. Tyler

    The Papers of Francis Bernard

    Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69

    Volume 4: 1768

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    Sir Francis Bernard, 1772. By John Singleton Copley. By permission of the Governing Body, Christ Church, Oxford.

    EDITED BY COLIN NICOLSON

    The Papers of Francis Bernard

    Governor of Colonial Massachusetts, 1760-69

    Volume 4: 1768

    Research Assistants:

    Stuart Salmon

    Christopher Minty

    Robyn Leith Stewart

    BOSTON The Colonial Society of Massachusetts 2015

    Distributed by the University of Virginia Press

    DEDICATION

    To Owen Dudley Edwards

    Copyright © Colonial Society of Massachusetts 2015

    EISBN 978-0-9852543-6-0

    Published from the Income of the Sarah Louise Edes Fund

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