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Title:
  • An Act for assessing upon the inhabitants of this Colony a rate or tax of six thousand pounds, lawful money, and ninety-three thousand six hundred and eighty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and two pence, old tenor.
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1769 No.3
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • [Newport :
Publisher/Printer:
  • printed by Solomon Southwick,
Imprint Date:
  • 1769]
Physical Description:
  • 4 p. ;
  • 33 x 21 cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J. E. Rhode Island,
  • Shipton & Mooney, Reilly, E., Dict. of Col. Am. Printers' Ornaments,
  • 425
  • 11443 529, 910
Notes:
  • Page [4] blank; other pages numbered.
  • Royal arms of Great Britain at head of title; line of type ornaments on page 3 above last paragraph. At head of title, below arms: At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island, and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America; begun and holden by adjournment, at Providence, within and for the said Colony, on the last Monday in February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine, and ninth of the reign of his most sacred Majesty, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth. At end of text on page 3: A true copy duly examined: witness. Alden cites printer's bill in Rhode Island state archives.
  • 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:
  • Broadside Collection: G 1157
  • MARC Values:

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