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Title:
  • Act for blocking up the harbour of Boston. Anno regni Georgii III. regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae. An act to discontinue, in such manner, for such time as is therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay in North-America.
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1774 No.2
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • [Newport, R.I.:
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed by Solomon Southwick,
Imprint Date:
  • 1774]
Physical Description:
  • broadsheet ([2]p.)
  • 23 x 36cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J. E., Rhode Island
  • Evans Reilly, E., Dict. of Col. Am. Printers' Ornaments
  • 540
  • 13308 498, 784, 757(?)
Notes:
  • Printed in two columns.
  • Evidently a supplement to issue no. 822 or 823 of the Newport Mercury. At end are two advertisements, viz. "To be sold, by S. Southwick, A master-key to Popery ..." and "John Waterman hath lately built the completest works in the colony, for making chocolate, near the paper-mills, in Providence. ..."
  • Preservation and electronic cataloging for this broadside was made possible by a generous grant from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Location:
  • RHI9
  • RHIN
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