Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) The Pennsylvania Evening Post. 4 pages, 10 x 8 inches, on one sheet; archivally reinforced at fold. Philadelphia, 29 July 1775
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Passes along the negative reports in a London newspaper concerning the commencement of hostilities at Lexington. Also prints the recruiting order issued by Horatio Gates for the American army: "You are not to enlist any deserter from the Ministerial army, nor any stroller, Negro, or vagabond, or person suspected of being an enemy to the liberty of America."