Morse, Hazen, b. 1790

Scope and Contents Broadside made in reverse (must be held to a mirror to read). Text reads, in part: "On the XVII, day of June, MDCCCXXV : at the request of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Most Worshipful John Abbot, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, did, in the presence of General Lafayette, lay this corner stone of a monument, to testify the gratitude of the present generation to their fathers, who, on the XVII day of June MDCCLXXV here fought in the cause of their country, and of free...

Scope and Contents Broadside made in reverse (must be held to a mirror to read). Text reads, in part: "On the XVII, day of June, MDCCCXXV : at the request of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Most Worshipful John Abbot, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, did, in the presence of General Lafayette, lay this corner stone of a monument, to testify the gratitude of the present generation to their fathers, who, on the XVII day of June MDCCLXXV here fought in the cause of their country, and of free...

Scope and Contents Broadside made in reverse (must be held to a mirror to read). Text reads, in part: "On the XVII, day of June, MDCCCXXV : at the request of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, the Most Worshipful John Abbot, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, did, in the presence of General Lafayette, lay this corner stone of a monument, to testify the gratitude of the present generation to their fathers, who, on the XVII day of June MDCCLXXV here fought in the cause of their country, and of free...

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Reverse engraving (probably a proof copy) announcing the cornerstone laying of Bunker Hill monument by Lafayette and Grand Master John Abbot, dated June 17, 1825, in memory of those who fought at Bunker Hill in 1775