Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Massachusetts. Whereas Doubts May Arise . . . at this Important Juncture against our Unnatural Enemies . . . all those People who shall March . . . shall be Recalled within the Space of Two Months. Letterpress broadside, 11 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; foxing, dampstaining in upper right corner, fore-edge tinted red; signed in type by James Warren and John Avery. (MRS) [Watertown, MA: Benjamin Edes, 17 September 1776]

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An act of the Massachusetts House of Representatives to assure potential volunteers that their term of service would be finite, and to allow for the payment of fines in lieu of service. Evans 14867 & 43087; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 1998.