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The Constitutional courant: containing matters interesting to liberty, and no wise repugnant to loyalty.
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 9941 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 9941.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765).
- Great Britain.
- Stamp Act (Great Britain : 1765).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages))
- Place of Publication:
- [Woodbridge, N.J.] : Printed by Andrew Marvel [id est, William Goddard], at the Sign of the Bribe Refused, on Constitution Hill, North America., [1765]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Though issued in the form of a newspaper, in fact a political manifesto in opposition to the Stamp Act. Contains two essays, signed Philoleutheros and Philo Patriæ, preceded by prefatory remarks 'To the public,' signed 'Andrew Marvel' (id est, William Goddard), and followed by a report of changes in the Ministry in Great Britain.
- At head of title: Saturday, September 21, 1765. [Numb. 1.]. In midst of title is a device of a snake divided into 8 parts, with motto: Join or die.
- "This single number of the Courant, directed against the obnoxious Stamp-Act, was printed by William Goddard at James Parker's press in Woodbridge, New Jersey, in a large edition, which was secretly forwarded to New York City and there sold by hawkers rapidly. It was reprinted there, and at Boston, and at Philadelphia."--Evans. See also Brigham, C.S. Amer. newspapers, volume 1, pages 525-526 (where the New York hawker is identified as Lawrence Sweeney); and the paper by Albert Matthews in Publications of the Colonial Society of Mass., volume 11, pages 421-453.
- Printed in three columns. In this edition, the imprint appears at the foot of the third column on pages [2].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 9941).
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- Evans 9941
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