Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 58

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Postscript to the Maryland Journal. Broadsheet extra, 2 pages on one sheet, 16 x 6 3/4 inches; faint soiling on verso. Baltimore: Mary Katherine Goddard, 8 July 17[7]6
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Big news on the Fourth of July! In Annapolis, the citizens of Maryland resolved for "a new Convention to be elected, for the express purpose of forming a new government, by the authority of the people only." Also featured was a 4 July report on the British incursion onto Staten Island.
No word, however, from the Continental Congress, where the Declaration of Independence had just been approved. The Maryland Journal was one of the first newspapers to print the Declaration, but that would not be for another two days, on 10 July. Printed by one of America's first female printers, this broadsheet is a fascinating relic of haphazard news dissemination from the new nation's very first week--even if they didn't know it yet.