Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1783.) The Connecticut Courant and Weekly Intelligencer. 4 pages, 14 x 10 inches, on one sheet; moderate wear, separated at center fold. Hartford, CT, 22 April 1783
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Contains an early printing of "A Proclamation Declaring the Cessation of Arms," declared by the Continental Congress eleven days previous. Passes on a report from New York: "The vile miscreants of tories were so exasperated that they trampled their most gracious King's proclamation under their feet, with the utmost scorn and contempt."