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- GLC#
- GLC02437.00182-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 2, 1774
- Author/Creator
- Rivington, James, 1724-1802
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 32.7 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Asks Knox to send a copy of John Hancock's Massacre Day Oration from March 1774 under a blank paper cover, because Rivington has an immediate use for the speech commemorating the Boston Massacre. Also regquests a single copy of any well-written pamphlet or book from Boston on the subject of the American dispute with the British. Rivington will print it in New York "whilst it shall be quite new to our readers in this province." Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.
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