Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) New-York Journal; or the General Advertiser. 4 pages, 17 x 11 inches, on 2 separated sheets; worn and trimmed with slight loss of text, tape repair on second leaf; early owner's name on first page. New York, 15 June 1775

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Reports from the second month of the Revolution: three companies of volunteers have marched to the defense of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, a Continental Post Office is proposed, and from Cambridge, MA, some optimistic news: "We have the pleasure to inform the public, that the grand American army is nearly completed."