Home > America to be declared independent? The Asgill Affair: Lippencot is given up to the Americans...

Click image to enlarge

Hide image list »

America to be declared independent? The Asgill Affair: Lippencot is given up to the Americans...

Item # 681164

September 21, 1782

THE ST. JAMES'S CHRONICLE, London, Sept. 21, 1782 The front page has: "Mr. Fox is said to have given the terms upon which he will resume his place in the Cabinet--Two of them are to declare American independent & to withdraw all our forces from every part of the continent. Lord Camden & Lord Thurlow both coincide with this idea...".
And further on: "...an article from Phila...Capt. Lippencot, who caused the execution of Capt. Huddy, had been sent on the 4th of June from the British lines...to the American army & it was supposed that he would be executed on the 21st...occasioned so much discontent among the refugees at New York that General Carleton...ordered all the people tented the city before he sees out."
Page 3 has a letter from the commanders of the American ships noting concern for the safe passage of Loyalists to Halifax.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, good condition.