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English: Caption: "To the Merchants of Boston this View of the Light House is most humbly presented By their Humble Servt Wm. Burgis." Reproduction of mezzotint. Caption on page (not shown): "The first light-house build within the limits of the United States." Illus. in: Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board, 1884, frontispiece.
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Robinson, John, and Dow, George Francis. The Sailing Ships of New England, 1607-1907. United States, Marine Research Society, 1922. Google Books

Page 17 Image Caption:
VIEW OF THE BOSTON LIGHTHOUSE AND AN ARMED SLOOP
From the mezzotint after a drawing by William Burgis of Boston, made in 1729 and now in the possession of the United States Light House Board. The only known example.
 

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