American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Five original newspapers, each 4pp, comprising:

The Connecticut Courant. Vol. XXVIII, No. 1509. Hartford [CT]: Hudson and Goodwin, 23 December 1793. -- Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. No. 4729. Philadelphia [PA]: J. Dunlap and D.C. Claypoole, 7 June 1794. -- The Connecticut Journal. No. 1548. New Haven [CT]: Thomas and Samuel Green, 28 June 1797. -- Gazette of the United States, and Philadelphia Dauly Advertiser. Vol. XV, Number 1976. Philadelphia [PA]: John Ward Fenno, 17 January 1799. -- The Providence Journal and Town and Country Advertiser, Vol. I, No. 15. Providence [RI]: John Carter, 10 April 1799. 

Papers with a variety of news and details related to the young republic. The 1793 Connecticut Courant reports on the Senate response to President Washington's re-election: “Your reelection to the chief magistracy of the United States gives us sincere pleasure….It as an event every way propitious to the happiness of our country; and your compliance with the call, as a fresh instance of the patriotism which is so repreatedly led you to sacrifice private inclination to the public good." Message signed in type “John Adams, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.” Washington's reply: “…the pleasure expressed by the Senate on my reelection to the station which I feel commands my sincere warmest acknowledgments – if this be an event which promises the smallest addition to the happiness of our country, as it is my duty, so shall it be my study to realize the expectation.” Signed in type “Go. Washington.” Message from the House of Representatives December 6, 1793: “Sir, the representatives of the people United States in meeting you for the first time since you have been again called by a unanimous suffrage to your present station, finds an occasion which they embrace with no less sincerely than promptitude, or expressing to you their congratulations on so distinguished a testimony of public approbation, and their entire confidence in the purity and patriotism of the motives which have produced obedience to the voice of your country. 

Dunlap and Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser with coverage of Washington writing on avoiding the political intrigues of Europe, negotiations with the Indians and the arrival of a Cherokee delegation in Philadelphia, and an article on negotiations with the Creeks in Georgia.

The Connecticut Journal with news from the House of Representatives and a bill reported forbidding citizens of the United States from entering into the service of any foreign prince or state in a a state of war, and text of several letters from John Quincy Adams, Minister Resident of the United States at the Hague. 

Additional national and international news covered and more. Condition of newspapers generally good with expected creasing, some tears espeically along folds, scattered spotting, and toning.