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Copy of a letter returned with those sign'd Tho. Hutchinson, Andw Oliver, &c. from England : Narraganset, 22d December 1767.

Author/creator Rome, George
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Boston] : [Printed by Thomas and John Fleet], [1773]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorMoffat, Thomas.
Other author/creatorHutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780.
Other author/creatorOliver, Andrew, 1706-1774.
Other author/creatorFranklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41763. ^A478749
General noteDenouncing the government and courts of the colonies in general, and of Rhode Island in particular. Signed: G. Rome.
General noteThe original manuscript, written by George Rome, a loyalist merchant of Newport, R.I., to Dr. Thomas Moffat, also of R.I., was among the Hutchinson-Oliver letters transmitted from England to Massachusetts by Benjamin Franklin in 1773, and subsequently printed and circulated throughout the colonies; cf. Evans 12818 and its variants. This broadside edition of Rome's letter is textually and typographically identical with the letter printed by Thomas and John Fleet in the June 28, 1773, issue of the Boston evening post.
General noteText in four columns.
References Bristol B2812
References Shipton & Mooney 41763
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1423
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 41763).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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