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Scope and Contents Broadside dated April 15, 1775 at Concord, Massachusetts, containing a resolution recommending "to the good People of this Colony of all Denominations" that May 11, 1775 be "set apart as a Day of Public Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer; that a total Abstinence from servile Labor and Recreation be observed, and all their religious assemblies solemnly convened..." The broadside is dated four days before the Battle of Lexington and Concord.Handwritten note on verso reads '3' for...

Scope and Contents Alarm letter, containing an account of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, originally written by Joseph Palmer, at Watertown, Massachusetts, just hours after the event. This attested copy written by Daniel Tyler, Jr., at Brooklyn, Connecticut on the morning of April 20, 1775 and addressed "To Christopher Leffingwell Esq. or either the Committee of Correspondence Norwich" on verso. Trascription Watertown Wednesday Morning near 10...