THE BOSTON EVENING-POST, dated January 9, 1775

* Revolutionary War about to start
* Rare title - Colonial Boston

The masthead of this title features an engraving of a heart surrounded by decorative embellishments.

A pg. 3 report from "Boston" says, in part:

* All the Provincial Assemblies that have met since the continental Congress, have full approved and adopted the Measures agreed upon & recommended by that august Body; and have taken all proper measures to carry the whole into full execution....In the other Colonies where the Assemblies have not yet met, they are all with vigor and unanimity, exerting themselves in the same important and glorious Cause...

The back page has a rousing address, reading in part: "...I take this Method to admonish you of the imminent danger we are in --the thick Cloud that gather over our Heads, darkning as it rises and threatning every Moment to burst upon us.... O consider the dreadful destruction that awaits us should these Fellows succeed in their designs....Therefore I say rouse up: we must work in haste, and beat down to destruction the insidious Villains with those who protect them; or die in the Attempt. Rally your respective Companies; thunder in their Ears the Danger they are in..." and much more, signed in type: Dux Insanus Populi Amentis.

Front page has stray writing in the upper left margin, lite foxing at the folds with a small hole at the juncture of two folds. Untrimmed and complete in four pages.