From the closing days of the Revolutionary War...
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April 03, 1782
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL: OR, THE NORTH-AMERICAN INTELLIGENCER, Phila., April 3, 1782.
Taking all of the front page is a poem: "The Political Balance; or, The Fates of Britain and American compared. A Tale." which obviously relates to the Revolutionary War.
Page 3 reports under "Philadelphia" include: "On...the 24th ult. a party of negroes and loyalists from the garrison of New York, to the command of about 100, under the command of a captain Blanchard, landed at Toms river. They succeeded in storming a block house defended by a few of the inhabitants ....In attacking the block house three loyalists were killed....The enemy burnt all the houses in the village...[and] by this wanton conflagration the inhabitants are nearly ruined."
Also a report about the activity of the general assembly of South Carolina with much about property claims. Another report mentions that Henry Laurens was released from a British prison: "...if he would enter security for his appearance in six months after he should be called for he would be set at liberty...".
A back page notice offers a Twenty Dollars Reward for a Negro Boy named Cato, with details.
Very uncommon to have a poem taking up the entire front page. Staining at the left affects about fifteen words of the poem, lite dirtiness in the upper right corner, otherwise in good, untrimmed condition.
Taking all of the front page is a poem: "The Political Balance; or, The Fates of Britain and American compared. A Tale." which obviously relates to the Revolutionary War.
Page 3 reports under "Philadelphia" include: "On...the 24th ult. a party of negroes and loyalists from the garrison of New York, to the command of about 100, under the command of a captain Blanchard, landed at Toms river. They succeeded in storming a block house defended by a few of the inhabitants ....In attacking the block house three loyalists were killed....The enemy burnt all the houses in the village...[and] by this wanton conflagration the inhabitants are nearly ruined."
Also a report about the activity of the general assembly of South Carolina with much about property claims. Another report mentions that Henry Laurens was released from a British prison: "...if he would enter security for his appearance in six months after he should be called for he would be set at liberty...".
A back page notice offers a Twenty Dollars Reward for a Negro Boy named Cato, with details.
Very uncommon to have a poem taking up the entire front page. Staining at the left affects about fifteen words of the poem, lite dirtiness in the upper right corner, otherwise in good, untrimmed condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
