Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) The Essex Journal and New-Hampshire Packet. 4 pages, 15 1/2 x 10 inches, on one sheet; minor foxing and wear; early owner's name inked on front page. Newburyport, MA, 29 March 1776
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The lead article is "Proposals for a Confederation of the United Colonies," an alternate early draft of the Articles of Confederation reprinted from the Pennsylvania Evening Post of 5 March. The masthead depicts an American Indian and a ship, and was engraved by Paul Revere; see Brigham, pages 208-9.