(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) The American Weekly Mercury

Sale 2444 - Lot 132

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) The American Weekly Mercury. #801. 4 pages, 11 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet; skillfully mended along center fold and in upper corner, minor foxing. Philadelphia: Andrew Bradford, 8 May 1735

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A later issue of the first newspaper in the Middle Atlantic colonies, founded in 1719. Only one other issue has been spotted at auction in the past ninety years: a 1737 issue which sold at Swann, 15 March 2012, lot 253. This issue includes news of a slave revolt in Jamaica: "the Forces of that Island were still pursuing the rebellious Negroes from Place to Place, they had taken a few of them and kill'd some, and taken some Arms, and that it was hoped they would at last suppress them, the Negroes wanting both Amunition and Provisions." Also includes 3 illustrated shipping notices.