Excerpts,

Boston Post Boy

July 9, 1750, p. 2

New York, July 2.
Friday last a Proclamation was issued here by his Excellency our Governor, forbidding any of his Majesty's Subjects in the County of Albany, to take any Indian Children, as Pledges for Debts from the Indians; which has been represented as a Practice too common amongst them; and that all such as have already been taken be restored immediately.

To be Sold, a very likely Negro Lad, about 16 years of Age: Inquire at the Post Office.

Wednesday last being the annual Commencement at [Harvard, in] Cambridge, the following Persons were admitted to their respective Degrees, viz.
Batchelors of Arts
Thomas Dudley, Thomas Cheever, Nathanael Cotton, Oliver Prescott, Robert Givvs, John Wendell, Henry Gardner, Nathanael Peaslee Seargeant, John Sturgis, Elizur Holyoke, Samuel Jordan, Benjamin Clarke, William Symmes, Samuel Hill, Henry True, Hezekiah Coolidge, Elisha Fish, Elijah Packerd, John Ellis
Masters of Arts
John Mico Wendell, Francis Waldo, Peter Bours, Benjamin Ellery, William Ellery, Pitts Hall, John Ewing, Anthony Wibird, Solomon Williams, John Cotton, Nathanael Henchman, Ebenezer Adams, Timothy Minot, Ebenezer Storer, John Foule, John Hurd, Jonathan Dorby, Isaac Gardner, Peaslee Collins, Edmond Noyes, Joseph Palmer, Silas Downer, Nathanael Robbins, Stephen Badger.