Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--NEWSPAPERS.) The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury. 4 pages, 18 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, on one sheet; worn, with cello tape repairs. New York, 3 April 1775

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Includes the resolution by the Massachusetts Congress of 24 March, signed in type by John Hancock. With "this colony being still threatened by a powerful army posted in its capital," Congress resolves for "putting this colony into a compleat state of defence."