INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE & UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER, Boston, Jan. 9, 1797

• General "MAD" Anthony Wayne death
• American Revolutionary War hero
• United States Army commander

This title has one of the more displayable mastheads of the late 18th century.
Page 2 has a report beginning: "Died, on the 15th instant. at Presque Isle, his Excellency ANTHONY WAYNE, Commander in chief of the Federal army." What follows is a poem on him.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: General Anthony Wayne, a hero of the American Revolutionary War known as “Mad Anthony,” died on December 15, 1796 (not 1797), at Presque Isle—modern-day Erie, Pennsylvania. At the time, he was serving as the U.S. Army’s commander-in-chief. Wayne had been traveling to inspect military posts along the western frontier when he fell ill, likely with complications from gout. He died at the small blockhouse there and was initially buried at Presque Isle. In 1809, his son Isaac Wayne had his father’s remains exhumed and reinterred at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania, though legend holds that some of Wayne’s bones were left behind on the old frontier road, giving rise to ghostly tales about his restless spirit.