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Title:
  • These presents witness, that we the subscribers, reposing a special trust and confidence in each other's friendship, do hereby severally promise, and unanimously agree together, as follows: ... That if it shall please God to permit fire to break out in Newport ... that we will then be aiding and assisting to each other ... In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, this twenty-sixth day of September, Anno Dom. 1752. In the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George, the Second, King of Great-Britain, &c.
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1752 No.3
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • [Newport, R.I. :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Printed by James Franklin,
Imprint Date:
  • 1752?]
Physical Description:
  • 1 sheet ([1] p.)
  • 29 x 28 cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J.E. Rhode Island,
  • Reilly, E., Dict. of Col. Am. Printers' Ornaments
  • 120
  • 472,475,482,677,709
Notes:
  • Text in two columns separated by line of type ornaments columns. Twelve numbered articles.
  • For other editions see Alden nos. 97, 98 and 444a. Imprint supplied by Alden. Ann Franklin was a silent partner with her son, James, in 1752. Rhode Island Historical Society and Newport Historical Society hold only two known original imprints.
  • 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.
  • RIHS copy repaired 1950.
Location:
  • Broadside Collection: G 1157
  • MARC Values:

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