Mar 22, 2007 - Sale 2108

Sale 2108 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(REVOLUTION.) [Whiting, William.] An Address to the Inhabitants of the County of Berkshire. Respecting their Present Opposition to Civil Government. 28 pages. 8vo, contemporary wrappers with the word "Liberty" inscribed on the front wrapper and "Impartial Reason" on the rear; minor staining. Hartford: Watson and Goodwin, [1778]

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scarce. The pamphlet concerns the Berkshire Constitutionalists, who dissolved their courts in 1775 in protest to the Crown, but refused to re-establish them during the War until Massachusetts had adopted a Constitution. They even went so far as threatening to secede from the State if no convention was held. This anonymous pamphlet is signed in print by "Impartial Reason" and dated October 1778. Evans 15717; Sabin 4894.