Messieurs Edes', By inserting the following address, you will oblige a constant reader [electronic resource] : My fellow countrymen. It is now upwards of five years since I addressed you on the important subject of military preparations
- Bib ID:
- 3370881
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Military countryman
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/43840
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- Description:
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- [Boston : Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1780]
- 1 sheet ([1] p.)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 43840.
- Notes:
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- Urging firmness and resolve in pursuit of a successful conclusion to the war for independence. Signed: A military countryman.
- Followed by excerpts from "a British magazine for 1762" and from the Boston gazette for Jan. 3, 1763, describing a day of darkness in Detroit on Oct. 19, 1762 (New England experienced a similar phenomenon on May 19, 1780); an article from the Newport Mercury dated May 20, 1780, with military intelligence from the south; a notice by the town assessors of Boston, dated May 25, 1780; and five short advertisements.
- Printed in three columns. Textually and typographically identical (except for final advertisement) with the second page of the May 29, 1780 issue of the Boston gazette, printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Bristol B5131
- Shipton & Mooney 43840
- Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 2267
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 43840). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
- Subject:
- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Boston.
- Copyright:
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- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1780
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1780
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