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February 27, 1769
PENNSYLVANIA CHRONICLE, AND UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 1769
The front page has: "A modern Poem On Liberty, translated from the Original Prosa-metro-bombast of Rusticus". The poem begins: "Ye Sons of Liberty Attend! To you the Skies in pity send A Bard, who, in the nick of time, stands forth to vindicate, in rhyme, Your life, your liberty and fame...". It is quite lengthy and signed in type: Timothy Sobersides.
On the fifth pg. is an ad: "To Be Sold, A Likely Negro woman, about 25 years of age..." On the sixth pg. is a report from "Charlestown [Charleston], South-Carolina" stating that, because of the revenue acts, several resolutions were passed by the province and that they will be strictly observed until the acts are repealed. In the same report it mentions that: "Last Thursday Mrs. Rachel Wilson, a celebrated preacher among the people called Quakers, arrived here by land...she preached to very crowded audiences of different persuasions."
The back page has: "Meteorological Observations at Philadelphia".
Measures about 9 by 12 inches, 8 pgs., a few traces of foxing, mostly on the back page. Nice coat-of-arms engraving in the masthead.
The front page has: "A modern Poem On Liberty, translated from the Original Prosa-metro-bombast of Rusticus". The poem begins: "Ye Sons of Liberty Attend! To you the Skies in pity send A Bard, who, in the nick of time, stands forth to vindicate, in rhyme, Your life, your liberty and fame...". It is quite lengthy and signed in type: Timothy Sobersides.
On the fifth pg. is an ad: "To Be Sold, A Likely Negro woman, about 25 years of age..." On the sixth pg. is a report from "Charlestown [Charleston], South-Carolina" stating that, because of the revenue acts, several resolutions were passed by the province and that they will be strictly observed until the acts are repealed. In the same report it mentions that: "Last Thursday Mrs. Rachel Wilson, a celebrated preacher among the people called Quakers, arrived here by land...she preached to very crowded audiences of different persuasions."
The back page has: "Meteorological Observations at Philadelphia".
Measures about 9 by 12 inches, 8 pgs., a few traces of foxing, mostly on the back page. Nice coat-of-arms engraving in the masthead.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
