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Princeton to continue as the capital of the United States...
Princeton to continue as the capital of the United States...
Item # 700814
November 22, 1783
THE GENERAL EVENING POST, London, Nov. 22, 1783
* Temporary U.S. capital at Princeton, New Jersey
The front page begins with a report headed: "America" from Charleston, concerning trade with France. Page 3 has a report: "...from America, of the 28th of September, advise, 'That it had been formally debated in Congress at Prince-Town [Princeton], whether the Delegates should return to Philadelphia, and resume their deliberations in that city? when it was resolved in the negative, seven states voting decidedly against the measure."
Princeton served as the capital of the United States from June 30 to November 4, 1783.
Four pages, full red tax stamp on page 3, good condition.
AI notes: In the summer of 1783, Princeton, New Jersey, briefly became the capital of the United States when the Continental Congress relocated there after being forced to flee Philadelphia during the Pennsylvania Mutiny, an uprising by unpaid Revolutionary War soldiers demanding back pay. From June to November 1783, Congress met in Nassau Hall at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), making it the nation’s temporary seat of government. During this period, Princeton hosted important postwar deliberations, including the formal reception of the news that the Treaty of Paris had been signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War and recognizing American independence. Although its time as the capital was short-lived, Princeton played a symbolic role in the young nation’s transition from war to peace and in the search for a permanent home for its federal government, which would later move to cities such as Annapolis, Trenton, and ultimately Washington, D.C.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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