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Handsome newspaper... John Hancock on the front page...



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June 27, 1793

INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE & THE UNIVERSAL ADVERTISER, Boston, June 27, 1793  

* Nice masthead engraving
* 18th century America
* John Hancock document


As the photo shows, this is one of the more handsome & displayable mastheads of the 18th century.
The front page features a half column document to the Mass. Senate which relates to fraudulent payments to veterans of the Revolutionary War, many of whom are deceased. It is signed in type: John Hancock.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, a piece from the top margin of the back leaf does not affect mentioned content, a discrete archival mend to page 2, otherwise good condition.

Category: The 1600's and 1700's