THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL, New Haven, July 24, 1776 

 * News of the Declaration of Independence spreads
* Battle of Sullivan's Island - General Charles Lee 
* American Revolutionary War - great year to have 

 A great issue from less than 3 weeks after the Declaration of Independence was endorsed by Congress. Relating to this, page 2 has a report from New York: "Thursday last the Declaration of the INDEPENDENCY of the United States of AMERICA, was published at the Court House." A very notable report and great to have in a period newspaper.
Page 2 begins with a letter from Major General Lee to the President of Congress, dated at Charleston, giving a nice account of the Battle of Sullivan's Island, an unsuccessful effort by the British. This detailed account takes over half the page & is followed by an order that Congress be published, signed in type: John Hancock, President.
Page 3 has several items relating to the Revolutionary War including a report from Congress dated July 11, 1776 signed in type: John Hancock, President. Also a letter from Crown Point dated July 3, 1776, and other reports from Providence, New London, and New Haven.
There is also: "A Proclamation" by the governor of Connecticut concerning General Schuyler and his success at Crown Point, granting pardon to all deserters of the Continental army in the Northern Dept.
The back page has a rather rare newspaper report datelines "Williamsburg, June 29, 1776" which includes: "This day PATRICK HENRY, Esq., was chosen governor of this country and a committee appointed to acquaint him therewith; to which he returned the following answer to the Convention." and what follows is a nice letter to the president of the Convention signed in type by: Patrick Henry, Jun. One bit from his letter: "...When I reflect that the tyranny of the British King and Parliament hath kindled a formidable war now raging throughout this wide extended Continents..." and much more.
Four pages, small folio size, never-trimmed margins, a bit of foxing & light damp staining, some light inking, but generally in nice condition.

Background: The July 24, 1776, issue of The Connecticut Journal serves as a remarkably dense and vivid microcosm of the American Revolution at its ultimate turning point, documenting the synchronized political, military, and structural birth of the United States less than three weeks after the Declaration of Independence was endorsed. Structurally, the newspaper captures a nation in rapid transformation: it records the ground-level spread of independence via the public reading of the Declaration in New York, while simultaneously detailing Major General Charles Lee’s crucial victory at the Battle of Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina, where a makeshift palmetto-log fort miraculously repelled the British Navy and secured the American South from early invasion. This military morale boost is flanked by the administrative mechanics of wartime governance, showcased through official congressional orders signed by John Hancock, a strategic executive pardon by the Governor of Connecticut to consolidate forces in the Northern Department, and the historic election of Patrick Henry as the first post-colonial Governor of Virginia. Collectively, these reports are profoundly significant because they preserve the exact moment the former British colonies ceased functioning as separate regions in armed rebellion and began operating as a unified, self-governing nation—simultaneously fighting a global superpower on the battlefield while building the constitutional and legal frameworks of an independent republic in plain sight.