THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST, Philadelphia, April 15, 1777.

* John Hancock
* Button Gwinnett

The front page has a detailed advertisement offering a reward for various men who "Deserted from the armed schooner Delaware..."

A pg. 2 report from "Charlestown" (Charleston) includes a rare mention of a Declaration signer with: "...The Hon. Burton Gwinnet [sic] Esq. is elected Governor of the state of Georgia, in room of his Excellency Archibald Bullock, Esq., deceased." From Philadelphia is a letter stating in part: "The enemy came out early...from Brunswick, with an intent to surprise General Lincoln at Bound Brook, and had like to have effected their design by the carelessness of a militia guard upon one of the fords on the Rariton, but the General got notice of their approach time enough to withdraw himself and most of his men to the mountain just in the rear of the town..." .

There is also mention that Congress ordered a monument of Maj. Gen. Warren to be erected in Boston.
 
A pg. 3 resolve says: "Whereas the Continental battalions are all on one footing, liable to the same kind of services, & entitled to equal privileges. Resolved, that the appellations 'Congress' Own Regiment' -- 'General Washington's Life Guards,' etc. given to some of them are improper & ought not to be kept up...", signed in type by: John Hancock, President.

The back page is entirely taken up with ads. Four pages, measures about 7 3/4 by 10 in., great condition.