Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--BROADSIDE.) Massachusetts, Commonwealth of. A Resolve Prescribing the Form of Inlistment . . . for the Term of Three Years. Letterpress broadside, 7 x 8 inches, signed in type by John Hancock and others; minor dampstaining with slight loss in margin, a few words reinforced in early manuscript, and small manuscript calculations in lower margin; uncut. (MRS) [Boston], 27 November 1780
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Mandates the text to be used for recruiting new Massachusetts soldiers, who must agree "to continue in that Service for the Term of Three Years unless sooner regularly discharged" and to serve "under the Command of the General Officers of the United States of America." Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 2252; Evans 16865. 3 copies in ESTC.