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Rescuing Orphan Girls - and Drowning Victims.

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Rescuing Orphan Girls - and Drowning Victims.
Two pamphlets, reflecting Bible-based philanthropy in the new America: "Charity to Children Enforced, in a Discourse, delivered in Trinity Church, Boston, before the Subscribers to the Boston Female Asylum...," by Rector Samuel Parker, Boston: 1803. 5 1/2 x 9, 32 pp., sewn. Offering a prayer, with 25 of the orphan girls present, to "...make this Institution a blessing to the community...taking by the hand the female Orphan, whose fathers and mothers...have forsaken them, of preserving them from the snares and temptations of a vicious world... The great Jewish Legislator was saved from destruction by the generous compassion of a woman...Ye Daughters of Israel! Ye fond and indulgent Mothers! behold the distress to which your sex is liable... innocent Orphans...." Cover dust-toned, deckled edges, mousechew at upper right, but with no loss of text, else good. * "A Discourse, Delivered before the Officers and Members of the Humane Society of Mass.," by Lemuel Shaw, Boston: 1811. 5 1/2 x 9 1/4, 24 pp., sewn. Accounting of monies, certified by John Hancock - possibly a relation - including details of rewards of $2 to $10 to local rescuers. First few leaves foxed, tear in blank margin of one leaf, some tattering of right edge, else good. (2 pcs.)