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References to Cornwallis' surrender... A plea to Congress by Loyalist James Rivington...
References to Cornwallis' surrender... A plea to Congress by Loyalist James Rivington...
Item # 687139
December 06, 1781
THE INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE AND THE UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER, Boston, Dec. 6, 1781
* American Revolutionary War
* Post Surrender of Cornwallis
* Loyalist James Rivington
The masthead features an engraving taken from one done by Paul Revere, showing a soldier holding a sword and a document inscribed "Independence" while standing beneath a banner inscribed "Appeal To Heaven" and surrounded by ornate embellishments.
The entire front page & a bit of page 2 are taken up with: "The Revolution of America, by the Abbe Raynal. Distressed State of England in 1768."
Page 3 has various reports with portions including: "...with dispatches from Sir Henry Clinton leaving the leaving the great affair of the reduction of America to Lord Cornwallis." and further on: "...from an officer at New York...informed that the rebel army, with the French, were then encamped within sight of the British lines & that they expected daily to be attacked. Their force was reported to consist of near 12,000 men with 70 pieces of brass cannon...That Mons. de Grasse was daily to be expected upon the coast from the West Indies...Admiral Rodney's fleet waw expected at New York about the middle of August...".
Then a letter from General Greene's headquarters at Santee: "...enemy a few days ago rereate4dl towards Monk's Corner...Reports say the enemy have left Wilmington and gone to Brunswick...that small transports are preparing at Charlestown that can keep close in shore to take off the garrison. A party of General Marion's went down to the Quarter House...where they killed some of the British...Not a single man was lost on our side."
Also a great petition to Congress from James Rivington, the notorious Loyalist printer of New York's "Rivington's Gazette" petitioning for some compassion and admitting he supported the wrong side during the war, etc.
Also inside: "...By reports from New York we learn that Sir Henry Clinton is generally condemned for the loss of Cornwallis. That the Tories, finding those who joined Cornwallis, abandoned to the mercy of the civil magistrates are clamorous...That some of the merchants had turned whigs because General Washington did not suffer the property of the merchants at York and Gloucester to be plundered."
Then an interesting account of an encounter with Benedict Arnold, and an Act of the Mass. legislature signed in type by: Samuel Adams, and John Hancock.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, good condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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