THE BOSTON CHRONICLE, Massachusetts, Dec. 19, 1768  The publisher of this newspaper had Loyalist leanings, causing its demise before the formal outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Most of the ftpg. is taken up with a continuation of: "Voltaire On History". An inside page has a report from a navy officer to a friend in Philadelphia which includes: "The people of Boston have a behaved in so haughty a manner, by flying in the face of the Mother country, that troops are actually embarked to bring them to subjection...How it will end I know not;--people on this side of the water expect bloodshed! I hope that will be avoided & things amicably settled...". Another address of the Mass. General Assembly includes: "...the distresses occasioned by the new duties imposed by the Parliament of Great Britain...are far from conceiving that violent & tumultuous proceedings will have any tendency to promote suitable redress...".
Various other reports, 8 pages, 8 1/2 by 10 3/4 inches, very nice condition.