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- GLC#
- GLC00259.02-View header record
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- 1787-1788
- Author/Creator
- Hall and Sellers
- Title
- Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 2953 (January 3, 1787) - no. 3042 (September 17, 1788)] [with gap]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 v. Height: 52 cm, Width: 26.5 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
One bound edition of the newspaper Pennsylvania gazette containing number 2953 January 3, 1787 to number 3042 Sep 17, 1788, with a gap of number 3003 and a suplement to number 3032. The volume has the signature of Edanus Burke, Esq. on front pastedown. The newspaper was printed by Hall and Sellers. Contains the printing of the United States Constitution in issue number 2990.
The Pennsylvania Gazette was an anti-Federalist newspaper. Some other issues of note included in the volume are:
Northwest Ordinance issue number 2983,
Constitution printed as "Plan of the New Federal Government" issue number 2990 (probably based upon the printing in the Pennsylvania Packet, GLC 6688),
Congressional Resolve receiving the Convention's report issue number 2992,
Connecticut Convention issue number 3008,
Massachusetts Convention issues numbered 3010-3012,
Rhode Island ratification issue number 3020,
Virginia and New York ratification issue number 3021,
Virginia Resolves issue number 3033,
Congressional resolution for electing a president issue number 3042.
December 12, 1787 and December 26, 1787 also contain advertisments by enslavers seeking runaway slaves.
Additional contains reprints of the Federalist Papers in the issues listed: 2-3 (2998), 4 (3000), 5-6 (3001), 7 (3002), [lack 8], 9 (3004), 10 (3005), 11 (3007), 12 (3008), 13 (3009), 14 (3011), 15 (3012), 16 (3013), 17 (3014), 18 (3015) and 19 (3016).
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