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- GLC#
- GLC03120
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- 1766/05/12
- Author/Creator
- Edes, Benjamin, 1732-1803
- Title
- Boston gazette: Supplement. [May 12, 1766]
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 36.7 cm, Width: 23.5 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Prints a scriptural parody critical of the Stamp Act (p. 1), a letter "from a North-American, now on the Island of Barbados" passionately denouncing the Stamp Act (p. 2), an extract from a letter from London claiming Benjamin Franklin had assured Parliament that the repeal of the act would relieve tensions, and another extract on the fate of nations and liberty (p. 3). Also contains many advertisements. Benjamin Edes and John Gill, the publishers of the Boston Gazette, were members of the anti-British faction in Boston.
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