Printed & Manuscript Americana: Semiquincentennial Edition

1: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Lepelle, engraver. Early French printing, based closely on the famous Stone engraving. [Paris]: Kaeppelin, [1840]

2: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Two Acts of Parliament. Boston: Richard Draper, 1764

3: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Mounted stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765

4: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Embossed stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765, on the docket leaf of a marriage certificate. Quebec, 30 January 1766

5: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Repeal of the Stamp Act discussed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 15 May 1766

6: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Assault on patriot James Otis, as reported in the Boston-Gazette, 11 September 1769

7: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, [1772]

8: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Supplement to the Newport Mercury, describing the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Newport, RI, 22 March 1773

9: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Tea Act, printed in full in an issue of the Boston Evening-Post, 25 October 1773

10: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Boston Port Act and the Tea Party, discussed in an issue of Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer, 9 June 1774

11: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Massachusetts Governing Act, in an issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, 14 July 1774

12: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Moses Hale. Almanac diary as a minister at the outset of the Revolution. Newbury, MA, January to December 1775

13: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) A town meeting called days after Lexington regarding the steps "to be taken at this present difficult time." Ipswich, MA, 22 April 1775

14: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Oliver Ellsworth. Pay order for a Connecticut company which answered the Lexington Alarm. Hartford, CT, 10 June 1775

15: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Samuel Stearns. The North-American's Almanack . . . for 1776. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, [1775]

16: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) William Hubbard. Letter describing the fortifications of liberated Boston, and the exploits of patriot privateers, 9 June 1776

17: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Oliver Ellsworth. Order to pay members of a Connecticut militia company heading out to New York, 19 June 1776

18: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Thomas Simes. The Military Guide for Young Officers. Philadelphia, 1776

19: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Nathaniel Low. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for . . . 1777. Boston: J. Gill, [1776]

20: (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) John Hancock. Resolution of Congress revising the "Rules and Articles for the Better Government of the Troops," 14 April 1777