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He has orderd all the melasses to be stilld up into rum for the Soldiers, taken away all Licences, and given out others obligeing to a forfeiture of ten pounds L M if any rum is sold without written orders from the General.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 July 1775 1963

By this time; they had made two valuable prizes, laden with sugar, melasses, maiz, cordovan leather,

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Robert Kerr 1784

[Could it have been _melasses_, as Webster and his provincials spell it, -- or _Molossa's_, as dear old smattering, chattering, would-be-College-President, Cotton Mather, has it in the "Magnalia"?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

Baby clothes, and apples, and apple sass -- and melasses! and more baby clothes! and pork when you kill. "

A Waif of the Plains Bret Harte 1869

[Could it have been melasses, as Webster and his provincials spell it, -- or Molossa's, as dear old smattering, chattering, would-be-College-President, Cotton Mather, has it in the "Magnalia"?

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

[Could it have been melasses, as Webster and his provincials spell it, -- or Molossa's, as dear old smattering, chattering, would-be-College-President, Cotton Mather, has it in the "Magnalia"?

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851