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John Hancock... Just before the Revolutionary War...
John Hancock... Just before the Revolutionary War...
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December 14, 1774
THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL & NEW HAVEN POST-BOY, December 14, 1774
* Pre revolutionary war tensions
* John Hancock
* Rare title
A very rare title from this pre-Revolutionary War era. The front page has results of town meetings at Wallingford and Derby, Connecticut. They are followed by a report from the Boston Gazette which tells of the troubling relationship with England (see), a portion including:
* ...I cannot indeed imagine a state of worse slavery than that in which the colonies would be, were they on this occasion to submit--to be not only subject to many hard restraints in acquiring their property, but to hold it...at the disertion of our rules; to have no constitution of government of their own, but to have their laws made & their government moddled by a legislature on the other side of the Atlantic..." with more.
Page 2 has some content concerning General Gage and the occupation of Boston (see for portions).
The back page has a document from the Provincial Congress concerning the Boston Port Bill, signed in type by: John Hancock, President (see). Other interesting tidbits relating to the coming Revolutionary War.
Complete in four pages with a nice engraving of a postboy in the masthead. This issue is worn with some tears at edges and folds, some causing some loss of text. A few small archival mends to pages 2 & 3. Measures 8 1/4 by 13 inches.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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