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Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
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Item Title
An addres[s] from the United States in Congress assembled to the legislatures of the several states.
United States. Continental Congress.
Created/Published
[New York : s.n., 1786]
Notes
Caption title.
Signed at the end: Samuel Osgood, Arthur Lee.
Imprint suggested by the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 33, p. 753. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 31, p. 966. Bristol gives Dunlap as printer and Philadelphia as place of publication.
"No copy known"--Bristol B6391. "No copy, as yet, located"--JCC 553. Not Evans 20039.
Third, fourth, and fifth lines end: govern-, to, this; signed on p. [3]. In the later edition (Evans 20039, JCC 559) the third, fourth, and fifth lines end: government, its, wel-; unsigned on p. [3].
Not in Evans.
Bristol B6391
Shipton & Mooney 44987
Journals of the Continental Congress, 553
LC copy annotated on top of p. [1]: Mr. Johnson. Annotated on verso of p. [3]: Address to the States.
Subjects
Finance, Public--United States--History--To 1789.
Debts, Public--United States.
United States--New York--New York.
Related Names
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.
Osgood, Samuel, 1748-1813.
United States. Board of Treasury.
Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819, former owner.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Medium
[3] p. ; 42 cm.
Call Number
Cont Cong no. 202
Digital ID
bdsdcc 20201 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.20201