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A brief and remarkable narrative of the life and extreme sufferings of Barnabas Downs, Jun.

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The narrator recounts his life from rural upbringing to service as a soldier and privateer, describing capture and imprisonment, illness and recovery, and a later voyage when his brig was driven ashore in a violent winter storm. He details the hardships of disease, deprivation, and the shipwreck that left many frozen to death, and reflects on providential deliverance, gratitude, and moral lessons drawn from suffering. The account mixes chronological memoir with vivid scenes of maritime peril and personal testimony of endurance and faith.

Printing-Office Liberty-square, Sept. 22, 1786.

In the Preſs, and in a few Days will be publiſhed and ready for Sale, by E. Russell, at his Office, near Liberty Pole, by the Thouſand, Hundred, Groce or leſſer Quantity, at the moſt reaſonable Rate:—Alſo may be had of Mr. Benjamin Guild, at the Boſton Book-Store, near the State-Houſe in Cornhill; Col. Ebenezer Battelle, Bookſeller, at the London Book-Store, in Marlboro’-Street; Mr. William Green, Bookſeller, at Shakeſpear’s-Head, in Newbury-Street; Capt. William Green, at his Grocery and Weſt-India Store near the Bridge, in Boſton; Mr. Lemuel Cox, and Mr. Trumbull, Innholder, near the Bridge, and Mr. Edward Hayes, in Charleſton; Mr. Edward Killins, at his Store, near the Market, in Salem; Mr. Bulkly Emerson, at the Poſt-Office, in Newbury-Port; Mr. Alford Butler, Bookſeller, in Portſmouth, New-Hampſhire, and by many other Printers, Bookſellers, Shopkeepers and Travelling-Traders in Town and Country.

BICKERSTAFF’s
GENUINE AND CORRECT
BOSTON ALMANACK,
For the Year of our Redemption, 1787.

Which will contain a great Variety of uſeful and entertaining Matter, in Prose and Verse.

This Work will be likewiſe ornamented with a large Number of engraved Plates, ſome of which repreſent the twelve Signs of the Zodiack in Miniature, and the ſeveral Employments and Diverſions of the Gentlemen Farmers, throughout the different Seaſons of the Year:—Alſo a curious Repreſentation of a County Convention, debating on State-Affairs; at the Head of the Table is a Figure of HONESTUS, that renowned Champion and bold Atteſtor of the Liberty of the Subject, and ſworn Enemy to Lawyers, who is converſing with one of the Order; over his Head is a Label with theſe Words “No Courts, no LAWYERS:” Another Plate repreſents a very curious and droll Scene of a large Group of the Black Order, or the Sons of Littleton and Coke, mounted on Jack-Aſſes, Peacocks, &c. returning from a rich Feaſt at Concord Court, &c.