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Auction archive: Lot number 225

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, in The Connecticut Gazette; and The Universal Intelligencer, Vol XIII. Numb. 661. Friday, July 12, 1776. New-London [Connecticut]: Printed y Timothy Green, near the Court House, 1776. Folio broadsheet, 377 x 244mm. (14 7/...

Auction 20.11.1992
20 Nov 1992
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$12,650
Auction archive: Lot number 225

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, in The Connecticut Gazette; and The Universal Intelligencer, Vol XIII. Numb. 661. Friday, July 12, 1776. New-London [Connecticut]: Printed y Timothy Green, near the Court House, 1776. Folio broadsheet, 377 x 244mm. (14 7/...

Auction 20.11.1992
20 Nov 1992
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$12,650
Beschreibung:

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, in The Connecticut Gazette; and The Universal Intelligencer, Vol XIII. Numb. 661. Friday, July 12, 1776. New-London [Connecticut]: Printed y Timothy Green, near the Court House, 1776. Folio broadsheet, 377 x 244mm. (14 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.), untrimmed edges preserving original deckle, a little worn, minor spotting and a small chip at top edge at central fold, affecting one letter on verso, contemporary marginal inscriptions in ink (see below) . Printed in three columns. AN EARLY CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Timothy Green, whose printing shop was "near the Court-House" in New London, was also the proprietor of the weekly Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer, published on Friday. Although the Declaration of Independence had been adopted in Philadelphia on Thursday the 4th, news of the vote and the text did not reach New London in time for Green carry the text in his 5 July issue. The present is the earliest issue in which it could have appeared. In a small box at the top of column one, beneath the masthead, Green notes that: "In order to expedite some necessary Business for the Government, we have been obliged to issue only a Half Sheet Paper this Week; in which however, is digested every material Occurrence that is come to Hand." The content of the paper is unabashedly pro-Independence. Green reprints news from many locales: London, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charlestown, Williamsburgh and others, ranging in date from April to July. Several ship seizures by the British are reported, and a communication from New York, dated 4 July, reports that "The militia from every quarter comes in daily; and our army is in high spirits," while British Major-Generals Carlton and Howe are appointed "to be Generals in America only"; Green reprints a North Carolina Congressional resolution of 12 April empowering its delegates "to concur with the Delegates of other Colonies in declaring Independency," gives a 27 June resolution of the Continental Congress calling for the raising of German-speaking troops in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and notes, rather ominously, the arrival at Staten Island of a major British fleet of warships and troop transports from Halifax (this was the army which which routed Washington's men in the Battle of Long Island, in late August). The text of the Declaration of Independence occupies about 1 1/2 columns on page 2; a contemporary reader has carefully numbered the articles which enumerate the American grievances, and written at the bottom: "23 Articles of Charge Ag[ains]t King George." The same hand has written in large letters at the top of the masthead on page 1 "Independency Declar'd July 4, 1776."

Auction archive: Lot number 225
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, in The Connecticut Gazette; and The Universal Intelligencer, Vol XIII. Numb. 661. Friday, July 12, 1776. New-London [Connecticut]: Printed y Timothy Green, near the Court House, 1776. Folio broadsheet, 377 x 244mm. (14 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.), untrimmed edges preserving original deckle, a little worn, minor spotting and a small chip at top edge at central fold, affecting one letter on verso, contemporary marginal inscriptions in ink (see below) . Printed in three columns. AN EARLY CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Timothy Green, whose printing shop was "near the Court-House" in New London, was also the proprietor of the weekly Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer, published on Friday. Although the Declaration of Independence had been adopted in Philadelphia on Thursday the 4th, news of the vote and the text did not reach New London in time for Green carry the text in his 5 July issue. The present is the earliest issue in which it could have appeared. In a small box at the top of column one, beneath the masthead, Green notes that: "In order to expedite some necessary Business for the Government, we have been obliged to issue only a Half Sheet Paper this Week; in which however, is digested every material Occurrence that is come to Hand." The content of the paper is unabashedly pro-Independence. Green reprints news from many locales: London, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charlestown, Williamsburgh and others, ranging in date from April to July. Several ship seizures by the British are reported, and a communication from New York, dated 4 July, reports that "The militia from every quarter comes in daily; and our army is in high spirits," while British Major-Generals Carlton and Howe are appointed "to be Generals in America only"; Green reprints a North Carolina Congressional resolution of 12 April empowering its delegates "to concur with the Delegates of other Colonies in declaring Independency," gives a 27 June resolution of the Continental Congress calling for the raising of German-speaking troops in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and notes, rather ominously, the arrival at Staten Island of a major British fleet of warships and troop transports from Halifax (this was the army which which routed Washington's men in the Battle of Long Island, in late August). The text of the Declaration of Independence occupies about 1 1/2 columns on page 2; a contemporary reader has carefully numbered the articles which enumerate the American grievances, and written at the bottom: "23 Articles of Charge Ag[ains]t King George." The same hand has written in large letters at the top of the masthead on page 1 "Independency Declar'd July 4, 1776."

Auction archive: Lot number 225
Auction:
Datum:
20 Nov 1992
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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