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| | 1715 |
 | | Perhaps it was Sunday, 2 October, that BF heard the Rev. Increase Mather preach on the death of "that wicked old Persecutor of God's People, Lewis XIV." On 10 Oct, Uncle Benjamin Franklin arrived in Boston. |
 | | John Burrill, of Lynn, was elected Speaker, 25 May. Six months after the death of Queen Ann, since Massachusetts had received no document continuing former Gov. Joseph Dudley as the governor under George I, the Council took over the government, 1 February 1714/5. |
 | | The date of Increase Mather's preface to Several Sermons Wherein is shewed (Boston: B. Green, for N. Buttolph, 1715). |
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