(AMERICAN REVOLUTION NEWSPAPERS) Incomplete run of the New

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--NEWSPAPERS.) Incomplete run of the New-Jersey Gazette. 22 issues (two of them incomplete), each 4 pages, about 14 1/2 x 9 inches; various conditions, 11 issues bound in later 1/2 morocco with early conservation work and inked library duplicate stamps on each front page, and the other 11 issues loose. (JMR) Burlington and Trenton, NJ: Isaac Collins, January to December 1778

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The incomplete first volume of New Jersey's first enduring newspaper, beginning with Volume I, Issue 6. The 7 October issue contains an important account of the Baylor Massacre in northern New Jersey: "Several of our soldiers were murdered after they had surrendered." Also includes several acts and proclamations by Governor William Livingston, and a column in which he poses as a patriotic semi-literate Trenton woman, using the pseudonym "Belinda" (6 May). Complete list of issues available upon request.