Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet. [Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1775.] No 188. Broadsheet extra (414 x 256 mm). 2 pp. Some toning and spots, short edge tears. EXTREMELY RARE REVOLUTIONARY EXTRA: FRESH NEWS FROM BOSTON AND LONDON IN THE SUMMER OF 1775, PRINTED BY DUNLAP. Contains a report from Worcester, Massachusetts on the aftermath of the Battles of Lexington and Concord: that Tories are leaving Boston, John Hancock's home was pillaged, and a rather bloodthirsty pronouncement about an uncommitted bystander who was killed in the battle: "wretches like him often meet their just reward." There is also speculation that the British could assert that the first shots were fired by Americans only because they tracked down a few American loyalists ("traitors to their God and country, born among us") and put these at the front of the troops before the regulars. This extra then prints the letter of Jonathan Trumbull to General Gage dated April 28, 1775 protesting against barbaric acts by the King's troops in Boston and against the general fortification of the town. Gage's lengthy reply is also printed, including the retort: "You assure me that the people of your Colony abhor the idea of taking arms against the troops of their Sovereign; I wish the people of this province, for their own sakes, could make the same declaration." On the second page are three further letters with great Revolutionary content: Governor Cadwallader Colden's reply to the Address of the New York Association (May 24); Cortland Skinner's letter to Governor Franklin in his position as speaker of the provincial Assembly of New Jersey (May 19); and Franklin's reply.
Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet. [Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1775.] No 188. Broadsheet extra (414 x 256 mm). 2 pp. Some toning and spots, short edge tears. EXTREMELY RARE REVOLUTIONARY EXTRA: FRESH NEWS FROM BOSTON AND LONDON IN THE SUMMER OF 1775, PRINTED BY DUNLAP. Contains a report from Worcester, Massachusetts on the aftermath of the Battles of Lexington and Concord: that Tories are leaving Boston, John Hancock's home was pillaged, and a rather bloodthirsty pronouncement about an uncommitted bystander who was killed in the battle: "wretches like him often meet their just reward." There is also speculation that the British could assert that the first shots were fired by Americans only because they tracked down a few American loyalists ("traitors to their God and country, born among us") and put these at the front of the troops before the regulars. This extra then prints the letter of Jonathan Trumbull to General Gage dated April 28, 1775 protesting against barbaric acts by the King's troops in Boston and against the general fortification of the town. Gage's lengthy reply is also printed, including the retort: "You assure me that the people of your Colony abhor the idea of taking arms against the troops of their Sovereign; I wish the people of this province, for their own sakes, could make the same declaration." On the second page are three further letters with great Revolutionary content: Governor Cadwallader Colden's reply to the Address of the New York Association (May 24); Cortland Skinner's letter to Governor Franklin in his position as speaker of the provincial Assembly of New Jersey (May 19); and Franklin's reply.
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