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Reports from the closing months of the Revolutionary War...
Reports from the closing months of the Revolutionary War...
Item # 701131
April 09, 1783
THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, Philadelphia, April 9, 1783 Fully half of the front page is a lengthy letter: "To His Excellency John Dickinson, esq., President" of Pennsylvania, which relates to the paper currency of America. The balance of the front page is a letter: "To Robert Morris" that begins: "May I congratulate you, sir, without wounding your feelings, on the happy manner in which the threatened discontents of the army have subsided..." relating to the revolt of the officers on back pay & other issues at the end of the war.
Page 2 includes a detailed ad for a runaway: "...negro man named Sam..." which is very descriptive.
Page 3 has: "Orders" from headquarters at New York, noting: "...That no persons...are to be admitted into the British lines without having previously obtained passports for the purpose from the commandant of New York...".
Then there is a document from the U.S. Congress: "Resolved, That the several states be required to suspend all enlistments for any regiment or corps in t the Army of the United States...".
There are more war-related reports as seen in the photos.
Also an advertisement headed: Haym Solomons", the noted Jewish financier. Salomon was a Jewish emigrant from Poland, imprisoned in 1778 by the British for aiding the revolutionaries and was condemned to death, but he escaped to Philadelphia. There he started a successful brokerage business. He aided Robert Morris in obtaining loans from France and pledged his own fortune to the new government to maintain its credit. Salomon was never recompensed and he died impoverished.
Four pages, wide, never-trimmed margins, light damp staining to the upper right, nice condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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