Franklin negotiates terms for peace to end te Revolutionary War...
Item # 715555
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NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE AND GNERAL ADVERTISER, Portsmouth, Aug. 3, 1782 This is one of the less common title of the Revolutionary War era.
Page 2 has a report from London noting: "...the new Administration are not without very sanguine expectations of being able to effect a general pacification on termw pertly honorable to this country...two gentleman, Messrs. Oswald & Whiteford, both formerly resident in America & gentlemen of the most respectable characters, were dispatched to Paris to confer with Dr. Franklin on the subject or a partial negotiation on the part of America only...That the United Colonies would...listen to no proposal tending to a peace which did not include France...insinuated that on those terms, and on the most unqualified admission of American independence..." with more.
Also mention that: "...his Excellency Gen. Washington with his suit arrived in this city [Phila.] from the northward, and on Saturday Gen. Count Rochambeau from Virginia...".
A few other war-related items as well.
Four pages, very nice, clean condition.
Page 2 has a report from London noting: "...the new Administration are not without very sanguine expectations of being able to effect a general pacification on termw pertly honorable to this country...two gentleman, Messrs. Oswald & Whiteford, both formerly resident in America & gentlemen of the most respectable characters, were dispatched to Paris to confer with Dr. Franklin on the subject or a partial negotiation on the part of America only...That the United Colonies would...listen to no proposal tending to a peace which did not include France...insinuated that on those terms, and on the most unqualified admission of American independence..." with more.
Also mention that: "...his Excellency Gen. Washington with his suit arrived in this city [Phila.] from the northward, and on Saturday Gen. Count Rochambeau from Virginia...".
A few other war-related items as well.
Four pages, very nice, clean condition.
Item from our most recent catalog - #369 - released for August, 2026
Categories: Revolutionary War, American
Price
$396
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.