Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
An authentic issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine, January, 1778, 48pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, there is a full page letter written by Benjamin Franklin to Lord North regarding a prisoner exchange. In part, “"...The barbarous treatment of Mr. Lovel, in Boston, has no parallel. Of the prisoners made in Fort Washington two-thirds of them perished by the unexampled cruelty & rigours of the captivity...Numbers are now groaning in bondage in Africa & India...Col. Ethan Allen was dragged in chains from Canada to England, from England to Ireland, from Ireland to Carolina, and from thence to New York ... Upwards of 500 British seaman have been generously treated ...”
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