July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Seven (7) issues of “The Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser.” 1767-1769, with information on Joseph Andrews who was charged with murder and piracy; England sending 13,000 troops to New York and a ‘dark cloud’s hanging over the heads of us North Americans’; “Runaway” Negro ads; The appointment of Benjamin Franklin as Agent at the Court of Great Britain; “taxation and representation” brought before both Houses of Parliament; the sale of a negro woman by Mary Penrose; Ads for Isaac Grey’s Beer; the sale of fire engines and much more. Good to very good condition. A nice grouping of newspapers with good colonial content.
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