Concern for British duties... The Mason Dixon Line...
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December 28, 1767
THE BOSTON CHRONICLE, Massachusetts, December 28, 1767 Page 2 has a report from Boston being the results of a meeting of freeholders which includes: "...the strongest apprehensions that our invaluable rights and liberties, as men, and British subjects, are greatly affected by a late act of the British parliament, imposing duties on sundry commodities to be levied & paid in the colonies...The design of this act, we perceive, is to raise a revenue out of the colonies for the support of his Majesty's government...an infringement of their natural & constitutional rights..." with much more (see for portions). It continues to take a full page.
Another page has a neat item concerning the creation of the Mason Dixon Line, being a report noting: "...to town from Philadelphia 11 Mohawk Indians...went down Susquehanna to Harris ferry...on the 19th of June they came to York-Town & afterwords proceeded with two surveyors, Mr. Dixon and Mr. Mason to run the line between Lord Baltimore and Mr. Penn, as they run this line through the Indians' land, Sir William thought proper to send these Indians down..." (see).
Eight pages, 8 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches, a period notation in the masthead, nice condition.
Another page has a neat item concerning the creation of the Mason Dixon Line, being a report noting: "...to town from Philadelphia 11 Mohawk Indians...went down Susquehanna to Harris ferry...on the 19th of June they came to York-Town & afterwords proceeded with two surveyors, Mr. Dixon and Mr. Mason to run the line between Lord Baltimore and Mr. Penn, as they run this line through the Indians' land, Sir William thought proper to send these Indians down..." (see).
Eight pages, 8 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches, a period notation in the masthead, nice condition.
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