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July 07, 1784
THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, Philadelphia, July 7, 1784.
* Post Revolutionary War America
* 18th century Phila. PA original
Front page news and commentary from London includes: The government in America is far from being completely settled, as there is a difference in sentiment what power to lodge in the Congress...but the jealousy of the Northern states will not let them comply with the desires of the Southern ones, in extending their power to what they conceive to be necessary to maintain good government...
Page 2 has news from the Irish House of Commons which includes a request to Parliament to address the problem of emigration. A letter from New-York mentions that Gen. Haldimand refused to deliver up Machilmakinac and to ...give passes to all who apply for them to come over the lakes to Albany and New-York... The letter also states that: Every Canadian languishes to be out of the English government; but their pusillanimity makes them, Spaniel like, kiss the rod that scourges them.
The back page has a reward ad for a runaway negro Fellow, named Bill.
Irregular narrow piece missing at the spine in part of the lower left margin, causing slight loss of text on pg. 3 and part of an add on the back page, slightly irregular in the upper part of the spine, archival mends to two minor fold tears. 4 pages.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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