{"publishers": ["Printed by Benjamin Edes"], "subtitle": "We the subscribers, do each of us severally for ourselves, profess, testify and declare, before God and the world, that we verily believe that the war, resistance and opposition in which the United American Colonies are now engaged, against the fleets and armies of Great-Britain, is on the part of said colonies, just and necessary. And we do hereby severally promise, covenant and engage ...", "series": ["Early American imprints -- no. 14840.", "Early American imprints -- no. 43064."], "physical_format": "Microform", "key": "/books/OL21289757M", "publish_places": ["[Watertown, Mass"], "contributions": ["Massachusetts."], "pagination": "1 sheet ([1] p.)", "title": "Colony of Massachusett's-Bay, 1776.", "url": ["http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=187414&T=F"], "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The so-called \"test oath\" as prescribed by an act passed by the Massachusetts General Court on May 1, 1776.\n\nImprint supplied by Evans.\n\nPrinted area measures 15.4 x 14.5 cm. Lower half of sheet is blank for subscribers' names.\n\nDigital version licensed for access by U. of T. users.\n\nEvans 14840\n\nBristol B4251\n\nShipton & Mooney 43064\n\nFord, W.C.  Broadsides, 2030\n\nDigital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.\n\nMicrofiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 14840).\n\nMicrofiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43064)."}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Loyalty oaths -- Massachusetts.", "United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.", "Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783."], "publish_date": "1776", "publish_country": "mau", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL647498W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "oclc_numbers": ["55823574"], "source_records": ["marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/ab.bib.02.20150123.full.mrc:273621803:1693", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_040.bib.mrc:342150944:2398"], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-11-01T16:54:17.009182"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-29T01:59:52.815866"}}