(MASSACHUSETTS) The Massachusetts Gazette or General Adverti

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) The Massachusetts Gazette, or General Advertiser. 4 pages, 14 3/4 x 10 inches, on one sheet; minor wear and several small holes. [Boston], 14 October [1783]

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On the front page, an important but rarely seen address by John Hancock commemorating the peace, "a peace that gives us the quiet possession of the dear objects for which we have contended; that closes such scenes of devastation and blood as we have beheld." He makes a plea for strong central powers for the new nation: "How to strengthen and improve this union, so as to render it more completely adequate to such purposes, is a matter of no small importance . . . our welfare, if not our very existence, as a free nation, is suspended upon it." On page 3 is a long advertisement for Noah Webster's new Grammatical Institute of the English Language, his newly published first book.