(AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1782) Thomass Massachusetts Spy or The

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1782.) Thomas's Massachusetts Spy or, The Worcester Gazette. 4 pages, 15 x 10 inches, on one sheet; worn in margins and folds. Worcester, MA, 28 March 1782

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A letter from South Carolina evokes the uneasy lull in hostilities after Yorktown: "The British are all in their works near the Quarterhouse, and are dared to venture farther. Col. Lee often harasses them, and even picks them off at their works." A long essay complains of lazy, overpaid congressmen, under the heading of "Freedom of the Press." Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, pages 206, 209.