(AMERICAN REVOLUTION NEWSPAPERS) The New York Journal or th

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DESCRIPTION OF A LARGE UNION FLAG IN SUPPORT OF CONGRESS (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--NEWSPAPERS.) The New-York Journal, or the General Advertiser. 4 pages, 18 3/4 x 12 inches, on one sheet; tape repairs along the horizontal fold, separations at center folds, edge wear. (JMR) New York: John Holt, 9 March 1775

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Describes a procession in support of New York's delegation to the Second Continental Congress. This issue is the main source of information for the liberty flag carried during the procession: "Two Standard Bearers carried a large Union Flag, with a blue Field, on which were the following Inscriptions: On one side: George III. Rex and the Liberties of America. No Popery. On the other: The Union of the Colonies, and the Measures of the Congress." The procession also encounters some Loyalists, and "some confusion arose, but subsided without any bad consequences." On the front page, the published letters of various Committees of Correspondence mention Paul Revere and other patriots.