Maryland Imprints of the Colonial Period, 1689-1776

hibited. Therefore | ... By Order of Congress.] John Hancock, President.| Baltimore:
Printed by John Dunlap.| [1776.]

Broadside. 12 7/8x 7 15/16 inches.

Resolution prohibiting exportation of the articles named until November, 1777. See Ford, "Bibliographical
Notes," No. 139.

MdHS. LC. (Ms. Div.)

389. —In Congress. | December 31,1776-| Resolved,| That any Restrictions heretofore im-
posed upon | the Exportation of Staves, or other lumber,| except to Great-Britain, Ireland
and the British Islands,| or any Place under the Dominion of Great-Britain, cease.| By
order of Congress,] John Hancock, President-| Baltimore: Printed by John Dunlap.| [1776].

Broadside. 5 3/8 x 6 1/2 inches.

MdHS.

390. WINCHESTER, ELHANAN. Thirteen hymns suited to the present times: containing the
past, present and future state of America. Baltimore: Printed by Mary K. Goddard. 1776.

Evans, No. 15222, gives this title, but does not locate a copy. See below, No. 391.

391. —Thirteen Hymns,| suited to the present Times:] Cotainging [jsic];| the past, present,
and future State of America;| with Advice to Soldiers and Christians.] Dedicated to the
Inhabitants of the United ] Colonies.| By Elhanan Winchester.] [Three lines from Psalm
cxviii. xxv.] The Second Edition.| Baltimore:| Printed by M. K. Goddard, in Market-)
Street, M,DCC,LXXVI.|

Sm. 8vo. A-B⁴, C²; 10 leaves; pages [i]-2o; p. [i]: title; pp. [3]-20: text, with heading, Thirteen Hymns,|
suited to the present Times:] Containing, the past, present, and future State of | America: Dedicated to the
Thirteen United | Colonies.|

Leaf measures: 67/16 x 4 inches. Type page, p. 4:125 mm. in height.

The Rev. Elhanan Winchester was born in Brookline, Mass., in 1751. He became the first minister of the
Baptist Church in Newtown, Mass., and in 1778 was to be found teaching Calvinistic doctrines on the Pedee
River, S. C. In 1781 he became a preacher of the Universal Restoration in Philadelphia. Died in Hartford, Conn.,
in April 1797. Author of various collections of sermons and hymns, and of works of theology. Allibone refers to a
sketch of his life and a review of his writings by William Vidler. 1797. 8vo.

BA. (in Washington Collection.)

1777

392. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In Congress, July 4, 1776.| The Unanimous | Declara-
tion | of the | Thirteen United States of America. | [Signed, John Hancock and all except
one of the signers.] In Congress, January 18,1777.| Ordered,| That an authenticated Copy
of the Declaration of Independency, with the Names of the Members of Congress, sub-
scribing the same, be sent to Each | of the United States, and that they be desired to have
the same put on Record.| By Order of Congress,| John Hancock, President.] Baltimore, in
Maryland: Printed by Mary Katharine Goddard.| [1777.]

Broadside. 20 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches.

The first issue of the Declaration of Independence printed with the names of the signers. Library of Congress
copy is attested in long hand by Charles Thomson, Sec'y, and John Hancock, President. Signatures of signers
do not include Thomas McKean of Delaware who was in the field with the army and signed the document only
in 1781. This session of Congress was held in Baltimore, and Mary Goddard acted as its printer. There is a copy
of the broadside in the Ms. Div. of the Library of Congress, and another in the State House, Annapolis. (Ford,
Bibliographical Notes, No. 117).

The entry above of a Maryland printed copy of the "Declaration of Independence" is the crown of the task
which the compiler set himself in attempting to record through the production of its press the development in
social and political ideals of one of the oldest of the American commonwealths.

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