Paul Revere engraving... Fine pre-war content...
Item # 715577
April 05, 1773
THE BOSTON GAZETTE & COUNTRY JOURNAL, April 5, 1773 Beyond the fine content noted below, the masthead features a great, patriotic masthead engraving created by Paul Revere, showing the "dove of freedom" being set free from his cage by the Liberty figure over the skyline of Boston.
Half of the front page is a lengthy letter from England that reflects upon the troubling relationship with the American colonies.
A few bits include: "...The censure is founded upon a supposition that the Patriots of Boston are opposing the independency of the judges. Now the fact is directly the reverse...But upon the Massacre at Boston, it being found necessary to pervert the laws...the judges, therefore are so far from being rendered independent that they are compleatly dependent on the Crown...the people of America may therefore approach the throne in full confidence, that his Majesty will not only redress the grievance, but severely punish the evil Ministers who have advised...".
The balance of the front page has an address of the: "...Loyal Subjects & Freeholders of the Town of Attleborough, at a Town Meeting...to the Committee of Correspondence in the Town of Boston", the text of which is shown in the photos. It concludes on the back page, followed by a similar meeting of those from Princeton.
Four pages, light tape stains across pages 1 and 2, one small non-archival mend on page 2, very nice condition.
Half of the front page is a lengthy letter from England that reflects upon the troubling relationship with the American colonies.
A few bits include: "...The censure is founded upon a supposition that the Patriots of Boston are opposing the independency of the judges. Now the fact is directly the reverse...But upon the Massacre at Boston, it being found necessary to pervert the laws...the judges, therefore are so far from being rendered independent that they are compleatly dependent on the Crown...the people of America may therefore approach the throne in full confidence, that his Majesty will not only redress the grievance, but severely punish the evil Ministers who have advised...".
The balance of the front page has an address of the: "...Loyal Subjects & Freeholders of the Town of Attleborough, at a Town Meeting...to the Committee of Correspondence in the Town of Boston", the text of which is shown in the photos. It concludes on the back page, followed by a similar meeting of those from Princeton.
Four pages, light tape stains across pages 1 and 2, one small non-archival mend on page 2, very nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's




















