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From the closing days of the Revolutionary War...
From the closing days of the Revolutionary War...
Item # 700387
April 03, 1782
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL: OR, THE NORTH-AMERICAN INTELLIGENCER, Phila., April 3, 1782
* Rare American Revolutionary War publication
Taking all of the front page is a poem: "The Political Balance; or, The Fates of Britain and American compared. A Tale." which obviously relates to the Revolutionary War.
Page 3 reports under "Philadelphia" include: "On...the 24th ult. a party of negroes and loyalists from the garrison of New York, to the command of about 100, under the command of a captain Blanchard, landed at Toms river. They succeeded in storming a block house defended by a few of the inhabitants...In attacking the block house three loyalists were killed....The enemy burnt all the houses in the village...[and] by this wanton conflagration the inhabitants are nearly ruined."
Also a report about the activity of the general assembly of South Carolina with much about property claims. Another report mentions that Henry Laurens was released from a British prison: "...if he would enter security for his appearance in six months after he should be called for he would be set at liberty...".
A back page notice offers a Twenty Dollars Reward for a Negro Boy named Cato, with details.
Very uncommon to have a poem taking up the entire front page. Staining at the left affects about fifteen words of the poem, in good, untrimmed condition.
* Rare American Revolutionary War publication
Taking all of the front page is a poem: "The Political Balance; or, The Fates of Britain and American compared. A Tale." which obviously relates to the Revolutionary War.
Page 3 reports under "Philadelphia" include: "On...the 24th ult. a party of negroes and loyalists from the garrison of New York, to the command of about 100, under the command of a captain Blanchard, landed at Toms river. They succeeded in storming a block house defended by a few of the inhabitants...In attacking the block house three loyalists were killed....The enemy burnt all the houses in the village...[and] by this wanton conflagration the inhabitants are nearly ruined."
Also a report about the activity of the general assembly of South Carolina with much about property claims. Another report mentions that Henry Laurens was released from a British prison: "...if he would enter security for his appearance in six months after he should be called for he would be set at liberty...".
A back page notice offers a Twenty Dollars Reward for a Negro Boy named Cato, with details.
Very uncommon to have a poem taking up the entire front page. Staining at the left affects about fifteen words of the poem, in good, untrimmed condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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