Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) The Essex Journal and New-Hampshire Packet. 4 pages, 15 1/2 x 10 inches, on one sheet; minor foxing, slight loss along center fold; early owner's name inked on front page. Newburyport, MA, 29 December 1775
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Features a report on Colonel Benedict Arnold from the outskirts of Quebec: "Their little army, consisting of about 600, are in good health and spirits, waiting the arrival of Gen. Montgomery to attack Quebec." As Arnold's force had sailed from Newburyport, this was very much local news. The masthead depicts an American Indian and a ship, and was engraved by Paul Revere; see Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, pages 208-9.