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A Bibliography of Maryland Imprints
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Broadside.
Leaf measures: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.
One of the few surviving broadsides used by the merchants for advertising their wares. Both Goddard and Hayes offered
to print advertisements for store windows and distribution and Goddard printed some in colors.
Not in Evans. Waters, American Imprints, 502.
Huntington.
339. To His Excellency the Governor, and the honourable | Council of the State of Maryland, |
The Address of the subscribers, inhabitants of [blank] | county, | ... [Annapolis: Printed by Fred-
erick Green, 1784.]
Folio broadside.
Leaf measures: 12 x 71/4 inches.
A petition for an emission of paper money to relieve the debtors.
Evans, 18582.
LC.
340. UNITED STATES. By the United States in Congress Assembled, | A Proclamation. | Whereas
definitive articles of peace and | friendship, between the United States of Ame-| rica and his Britannic
majesty, were concluded | and signed at Paris, on the 3d day of Septem- | ber, 1783, .... which
definitive articles are in the | words following, | ... [rule] | Annapolis: Printed by John Dunlap,
Printer for the United States in Congress assembled. [1784.]
La. folio broadside.
Leaf measures: 21 x 16 1/2 inches.
The official proclamation of the treaty signed by the president of Congress, Thomas Mifflin. It is dated Annapolis, 14
January 1784. See numbers 302 and 307 for earlier broadsides containing the text of the treaty.
Evans, 18819. Ford, 424.
MdSL. LC (3 copies). MHS.
341. ——— By the United States in | Congress Assembled, | January 14, 1784. | Resolved unan-
imously, . | That it be ... earnestly recommended to the le- | gislatures of the respective states,
to provide for the restitution | of all estates, .... | belonging to real British subjects, ... [Annapolis:
Printed by John Dunlap, 1784.]
4to. broadside.
Leaf measures: lof z 8f inches.
Article V of the Treaty of Paris stipulated that Congress would recommend the restitution of the confiscated property.
The inability of Congress to change the policy of the states in this matter was the reason given by the British for holding
the frontier posts.
Not in Evans. Ford, 425. Waters, American Laws, 14.
LC. Huntington.
342. ———— The Committee appointed to prepare a Plan for the tem- | porary Government of the
Western Territory, have | agreed to the following Resolutions .. [Annapolis: Printed by John
Dunlap, 1784.]
Folio broadside.
Leaf measures: 17 x 10 1/2 inches.
The committee consisting of Jefferson, Chase and Howell submitted their report on March 1 recommending the estab-
lishment of ten states between the Ohio and the Mississippi to be called Sylvania, Michigania, Cherronesus, Assenisipia,
Metropatamia, Illinois, Saratoga, Washington, Polypotamia, and Pelisipia. They also proposed that slavery be abolished
in this territory after 1800. The provisions were defeated and the report was recommitted. It appeared on March 22 in nearly
the same form as that in which it was accepted on April 23. See numbers, 343 and 344.
Evans, 18829. Ford, 426.
HSP.
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