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- Covention [sic] at Concord, Sept. 22, 1779 for stating the prices of sundry articles.
- "... Resolved, at our opinion, that no article of merchandize or country produce, be sold after the first day of October next, at a higher price than the following, viz. ... Done in convention at Concord by unanimous consent, the 23d day of September, A.D. 1779.", Signed: John Langdon, president, attest, E. Thompson, secretary., Imprint supplied by Evans., Text in two columns., N-YHS copy: fabric lining.
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- 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.