Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1776-1783

: To the electors of this city at large.; Concerning the upcoming election., Signed and dated: Cincinnatus. New-York, December 23, 1783., Imprint below type ornament rule., N-YHS copy has manuscript note: "McDougall"; fabric lining.

: To the honourable magistrates, and worthy electors of King's County, on Nassau-Island, in the colony of New-York.; Signed: A freeholder., Text printed in two columns., Third paragraph in right column in smaller type., N-YHS copy with ms. emendation in left column, line 22: "rights" to follow "natives" with "s" crossed out.

: To the inhabitants of New-York.; Signed and dated: The Sentinel. January 27, 1776., Imprint from Evans., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York.; Concerning the political leadership of New York City., Dated and signed: April 16, 1776. A sober citizen.

: To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York.; Arguing against anyone holding office who does not possess "great abilities, or considerable property.", Signed and dated: The watchman. April 15, 1776., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: To the mechanicks and free electors of the city and county of New-York.; Concerning the election of state senators and representatives, Dec. 29, 1783., Recommends nine candidates for election., Signed and dated: Juvenis. New-York, Dec. 23, 1783., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy has manuscript note: "McDougall"; fabric lining.

: To the public.; Directing those persons with unsettled claims against the United States to enter their claims before Oct. 31, 1776., Signed: James Milligan, John Carter, John Welles. Commissioners. Albany, September 30, 1776., N-YHS copy: fabric lining., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: To the public. The Provincial Congress of New-York, yesterday passed a resolve in the following words.; Attack on the resolution prohibiting a military officer from serving in the New York legislature. Includes a statement of Scott's commission from the Provincial Congress, dated New-York, the ninth day of June 1776., Signed at bottom: John Morin Scott.

: To the worthy and industrious mechanicks of this state.; Calling for caution in electing members of the New York Legislature., Signed: A friend to mechanicks., Imprint below type ornament rule., N-YHS copy 1 slightly damaged along fold; manuscript note on verso: "XXVIII"; copy 2: fabric lining; copy 3 with manuscript note: "McDougall".

: Tory Act.; Seven resolutions of the Continental Congress concerning American loyalists., Signed: Extracts from the minutes, Charles Thompson [i.e. Thomson], secretary., Imprint from Evans., N-YHS copy inscribed: "John McKesson" and "Continental Congress"; fabric lining.

: United States Lottery.; Includes a resolution of the Continental Congress, dated Apr. 12, 1779., N-YHS copy torn fragment, lower portion of sheet only, beginning: "This lottery is set on foot ..."; fabric lining.

: Verses. For a believer, when looking on a watch.; Verse of 20 lines; first line: Believer, when beholding me., At head of title: 1780 Saint George's Day., At foot of page: April twenty-third, 1780. 1780[.], Place of publication supplied by Bristol., Surrounded by ornamental border., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: War Office (Williamsburg) August 17, 1779.; Concerns the raising of troops for the defence of the commonwealth of Virginia., Imprint supplied by Bristol., N-YHS copy inscribed; fabric lining.

: We the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and inlist [our]selves, as soldiers, in the batallions of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, in the service of the United States of America.; Enlistment form for the Continental Army., N-YHS copy has eight signatures dated July 1, 1780, followed by manuscript inscriptions dated July 17th, 1780; damaged at creases, with some loss of text; pasted onto board.

: Whereas, many persons, at and below the White-Plains, in the county of West-Chester, by reason of the ravages of the enemy, are greatly distressed for want of provision to support their families.; Signed: Given at head-quarters, Peeks-Kill, December 22, 1778. Alexander M'Dougall, major-general., Followed by two other orders given by Major General M'Dougall, dated Dec. 24, 1778 and Jan. 7, 1779, respectively., N-YHS copy inscribed: "XXVIII"; fabric lining.

: address of the Congress to the inhabitants of the United States of America.; Describing the causes and progress of the Revolution., Signed: By order of Congress, Henry Laurens, president., Followed by the resolve of Congress, May 9, 1778, that the address be read at religious services throughout the United States, and the order of the Massachusetts Council for printing and reading the address, dated May 23, 1778., Text in three columns; printed area measures 39.5 x 22.3 cm., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: dying criminal.; by Robert Young, ; on his own execution, which is to be on this day, November 11th, 1779, for a rape committed on the body of Jane Green, a child, eleven years of age, at Brookfield, in the county of Worcester, on the third day of September last. Corrected from his own manuscript., Verse in seventeen stanzas, printed in two columns divided by mourning rule; first line: Attend, ye youth! if ye would fain be old., Isaiah Thomas was the only printer active at Worcester, Mass., in 1779., Text in two columns; printed area measures 36.2 x 18.9 cm., Woodcut of hanging with gibbet, crowd, and cart., N-YHS copy imperfect: mutilated, with some loss of text and imprint; fabric lining.

: following are recommended as proper persons to represent the city and county of New-York, in Provincial Congress.; List of names includes John Jay, Philip Livingston, John Alsop and eighteen others., List printed in three columns divided by type ornament rules., One of 4 different tickets issued for this election; this ticket includes James Duane. Cf. Becker., Typography identical to Evans 14757, Publication attributed in Evans 15108 to Holt.

: following are recommended as proper persons to represent the city and county of New-York, in Provincial Congress.; Election ticket, listing Col. M'Dougall, Robert Ray, John Van Cortlandt, and eighteen others, followed by an address exhorting the inhabitants of New York to vote "for men of virtue and knowledge" in the upcoming election., Election ticket followed by: To the inhabitants of the city and county of New-York., Signed: The Sentinel., Dated: April 13, 1776., One of 4 different tickets issued for this election. Cf. Becker., Imprint from Evans 15108., Names in 3 columns separated by type ornament rules., Also issued as separate broadsides. Two issues noted. A: first line "The following are recommended ... " 155 mm.; first line "To the inhabitants ... " 149 mm. B: "The following ... " 158 mm.; "To the inhabitants ... " 152 mm., Library copy no. 1 state A on one sheet. Library copy 2 state B "The following ... " on separate sheet 12 x 21 cm., copy 3 state B "To the inhabitants ... " on separate sheet 26 x 21 cm.

: following is a correct transcript of the treaty between France and the United States of America, together with the ratification of the same by Congress.; Regarding loans to the United States from the French government., Signed: Given at Versailles, the 16th of July, 1782. (Signed) C.G. De Vergennes. (L.S.) B. Franklin (L.S.)., Imprint supplied by Bristol., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: following return of the prisoners, taken at Forts Montgomery and Clinton, are published for the satisfaction of the public, and particularly for the benefit of their relations; who are requested to deliver such supplies, as they mean to send for the use o; Containing the names of American officers and soldiers taken prisoner at Forts Hemingway and Clinton, Oct. 6, 1777., Signed: Jos. Loring, comm. pris., Imprint supplied by Bristol., N-YHS copy inscribed on verso: "Return of Prisoners taken at Montgomery &c."; fabric lining.

: hymn to be sung by the charity scholars, on Sunday, the 12th of October, 1783, at St. George's Chapel, after the charity sermon for the benefit of the school.; In six stanzas; first line: Great source of good! Almighty pow'r!, Followed by a description of the charity school of Trinity Church, New York, and their appeal for financial assistance, dated: New-York, October 11, 1783.

: hymn to be sung by the charity scholars, on Sunday, the 19th of October, 1783, at St. Paul's Church, after the charity sermon for the benefit of the school.; In six stanzas; first line: Great source of good! Almighty pow'r!, Followed by a description of the charity school of Trinity Church, New York, and their appeal for financial assistance, dated: New-York, October 16, 1783., Dated: New-York, October 16, 1783., Printed from the standing type for the Oct. 12th event., N-YHS copy donated by T.W.C. Moore; fabric lining.

: list of the fortunate numbers in the New-York Poor Lottery.; Imprint from Evans., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

: new touch on the times.; By a daughter of liberty, living in Marblehead., Verse of eighty-four lines, describing the severe shortages and economic conditions which existed in Marblehead and other coastal towns between 1776 and 1780; first line: Our best beloved they are gone., Author from final couplet: Molly Gutridge composition ..., "Probably printed by Ezekiel Russell ..."--Tapley. Salem imprints, p. 333. One of the cuts illustrating this broadside poem was also included in the Downfall of justice (Evans 14740) printed by Russell in 1776., Dated [1778] by Tapley, [1779] by Ford, and [1779?] by Bristol. In 1779 Russell was printing at Danvers, Mass., Text in two columns divided by a single rule; printed area measures 31.8 x 18.9 cm., Two woodcut illustrations, the first showing a domestic interior with a seated woman and three children with the figure of Justice with scales in the background, the second showing a woman in a tricorn hat bearing a rifle and powder horn., N-YHS copy slightly mutilated, with some loss of text.

: proclamation. By His Excellency the Honorable William Howe.; Howe did not invade Long Island until Aug. 27.

: second section of the articles of war.; Regulations prescribing punishments for insubordination, mutiny, and desertion., Imprint from Evans., N-YHS copy: Watermark: crown over "GR" with wreath within circle.

: state of the receipts and expenditures of public monies upon warrants from the superintendant of finance, from the 1st of January 1782, to the 1st of January 1783.; Signed: Joseph Nourse, register. Register's Office, January 31st, 1783., Imprint supplied by Evans., Printed on blue paper., N-YHS copies: closely trimmed; fabric lining.

: treasurer takes this method to inform the public, that in pursuance of advice received from the governor and sundry members of Council and Assembly, he shall, by himself or assistant, make a tour through the counties of Windham, Windsor and Orange, for a; Signed: Ira Allen, treasurer, Treasurer's Office, Sunderland, May 27, 1783. Followed by: Notice is hereby given to the officers and soldiers of the troops of this state, who served in the years 1780 and 1781 ... Signed and dated: Thomas Tolman, pay-master. Pay office, Arlington, June 3, 1783., Imprint suggested by McCorison., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.

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