Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 287

Price Realized: $ 2,500
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PENNSYLVANIA.) Group of 9 newspapers on the Whiskey Rebellion. Various sizes and conditions. (MRS) Vp, August to December 1794
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The earliest issue here is Kline's Carlisle Weekly Gazette, issued in central Pennsylvania on 20 August 1794, which includes a recruitment advertisement for "Brave Volunteers," Governor Mifflin's order calling up the militia, a poem on whiskey, and more. Also includes Boston's Columbian Centinel, 16 August (with Washington's proclamation calling up the troops), 10 September, 4 October, 8 October, and 18 October a broadside Supplement to the Virginia Gazette, 17 November, with Henry Lee's address to the residents of western Virginia concerning federal troops the Newhampshire and Vermont Journal, 21 November, with Washington's letter of thanks to Henry Lee and Boston's Federal Orrery of 1 December 1794 featuring Washington's 19 November State of the Union address.