Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) The New-England Chronicle; or, The Essex Gazette. 4 pages, 15 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches, on one sheet; early repairs on center fold and fore-edge with loss of a few words, minor foxing. Cambridge, MA, 6 July 1775

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Reprints Number V of The Crisis, the stridently pro-American journal from London. Also includes addresses by the New York and Massachusetts legislatures congratulating General Washington upon his appointment, as well as a response by Washington, and an estimate of British casualties in the recent Battle of Bunker Hill. The controversial letters of Thomas Hutchinson are printed on the back page. Printed "by Samuel Hall and Ebenezer Hall at their office in Stoughton Hall, Harvard College."