Maryland Imprints of the Colonial Period, 1689-1776

Leaf measures: 8f x 6| inches. Type page, p. 4: 180 x 130 mm.

MdHS. MDSL. LC. JCB. and in other public and private collections.

This collection of the Proceedings of the Revolutionary "Conventions" of Maryland, and those of Dec. 1775,
May 1776, June 1776 and August 1776, were reprinted with the following tide and imprint:

Proceedings | of | the Conventions | of the | Province of Maryland,) held at | the City of Annapolis,| in |
1774,1775, & 1776. | Baltimore: | James Lucas & E. K. Deaver.) Annapolis—Jonas Green | 1836.|

8vo. pp. [i-ii], [i]-378. For the history of this reprint, see the Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Dele-
gates of the State of Maryland for Jan. nth and Feb. 18th, 1834.

359. —Association | of the Freemen of | Maryland | July 26,1775.] The long premeditated,
and now, avowed design of the British government, to raise a revenue from the property
of the colonists without their consent,| .... [Annapolis: Printed by Frederick Green. 1775.]

Broadside. With signatures of 112 Associators appended.

MdHS. (photographic copy.) Photographic reproduction in Scharf, J. T. History of Maryland, vol. 2, facing
p. 184.

360. —At a meeting of the delegates ... of the Province of Maryland, at the City of An-
napolis, ..... twenty-sixth of July, 1775, and continued till the fourteenth day of August
in the same year ..... [Resolution for the enrollment of minute-men.] [Annapolis: Printed
by Frederick Green, 1775.]

pp. 4, fol.

Evans, No. 14178. No copy located.

361. [The Maryland Almanack and Ephemeris for the Year of our Lord 1776. Annapolis:
Printed by Frederick Green. 1775.]

No copy recorded. Advertised in Maryland Gazette for Nov. 30, 1775 as "Just Published."

362. The | Maryland Gazette.| (Jan. 5-Dec. 28, 1775, Nos. 1530-1581; XXXth-XXXIst
Year.) [Colophon as in 1414-1425 of year 1772 until March 30, 1775, No. 1542, when Mrs.
Green died, (Mch 2jd) and the colophon beginning with this number was:] Annapolis:
Printed by Frederick Green. |

Sizes vary, Nos. 1530-1533 measure 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, thereafter, 15 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches; 2 leaves each number; 3
columns.

See Plate Xb for title arrangement.

MDSL. (complete). For location of scattered issues, see Brigham, American Newspapers.

362a. The | Maryland Journal,| and the | Baltimore Advertiser.| (Jan. 2-Dec. 27,1775, Nos.
55-106, pages 205-424; Nos. 55-104 being the remaining numbers of vol. 2, and 105-106 be-
ing the first two numbers of vol. 3.) [Colophons vary, but remain in substance as in 1774
until No. 73 when Mary Katherine Goddard's name appeared in the imprint, as follows:]
Baltimore: Published by M. K. Goddard, at the Printing-Office in Market-Street, | next
Door above Dr. John Stevenson's... |... |... | [From 88-106, additional advertising mat-
ter was included in imprint, but no material change occurred.]

Size varies. Nos. 55-56: 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; Nos. 58-59: 121/4 x yf inches; normal size: 15 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Three
columns; two leaves each number except No. 61, which seems to have only one leaf.

See Plate XIa for title arrangement.

Nos. 58 and 59 have a "Supplement" of one leaf each. Nos. 74,76, 83, 85,89 and 98 have a "Postscript" of
one leaf each. Nos. 61-63, 65, 67-72 are without colophons. No. [78] is wrongly numbered "88" which is used
twice. No. 55 has "1774" instead of "1775" in last two running heads. No. 104 has at head of title: "This Paper
Compleats the Second Year." Pagination is frequently incorrect.

MdHS. has all issues except Nos. 57, 60, 64, 66, 80 and 100. Brigham, American Newspapers records scat-
tered issues in other libraries.

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