{"product_id":"1773-dunlaps-pennsylvania-packet-december-27-1773-printed-days-after-the-boston-tea-party-john-dunlap-revolutionary-america","title":"1773 DUNLAP'S PENNSYLVANIA PACKET – December 27, 1773 – Printed Days After the Boston Tea Party – John Dunlap – Revolutionary America","description":"\u003ch2 data-start=\"566\" data-end=\"691\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\n\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"569\" data-end=\"691\"\u003e1773 DUNLAP'S PENNSYLVANIA PACKET – Published 11 Days After the Boston Tea Party – John Dunlap – Revolutionary America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"752\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"752\"\u003eDunlap's Pennsylvania Packet, or the General Advertiser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"797\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"754\" data-end=\"797\"\u003ePhiladelphia: Monday, December 27, 1773\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"816\"\u003eVol. III, No. 114\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"818\" data-end=\"1111\"\u003eAn original issue of one of Colonial America's most important newspapers, printed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"918\"\u003eJohn Dunlap\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Philadelphia printer who would become immortal less than three years later for producing the first broadside edition of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1048\" data-end=\"1079\"\u003eDeclaration of Independence\u003c\/strong\u003e on the night of July 4–5, 1776.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1308\"\u003eThis issue was published \u003cstrong data-start=\"1138\" data-end=\"1185\"\u003eonly eleven days after the Boston Tea Party\u003c\/strong\u003e, placing it among the earliest newspapers printed following one of the defining events leading to the American Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1526\"\u003eThe handsome front page displays Dunlap's beautiful engraved masthead with central sailing ship vignette and contains numerous advertisements for books, imported goods, lotteries, real estate, and commercial notices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1528\" data-end=\"1555\"\u003eThe interior pages include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1877\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1557\" data-end=\"1594\"\u003eExtensive \u003cstrong data-start=\"1569\" data-end=\"1594\"\u003eAmerican intelligence\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1626\"\u003eReports from \u003cstrong data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1626\"\u003ePhiladelphia\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1627\" data-end=\"1651\"\u003eNews from \u003cstrong data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1651\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1681\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-start=\"1654\" data-end=\"1666\"\u003eSavannah\u003c\/strong\u003e correspondence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1682\" data-end=\"1719\"\u003eCongressional and governmental news\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1720\" data-end=\"1754\"\u003eForeign intelligence from Europe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1755\" data-end=\"1789\"\u003eShipping arrivals and departures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1877\"\u003eA wide variety of colonial advertisements reflecting everyday life in British America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1879\" data-end=\"2119\"\u003eThe final page contains dozens of advertisements for merchants, booksellers, physicians, lotteries, property sales, imported merchandise, and other commercial notices, providing an exceptional snapshot of Philadelphia commerce in late 1773.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2121\" data-end=\"2351\"\u003ePrinted just days after the destruction of East India Company tea in Boston Harbor, this newspaper comes from one of the most pivotal months in American history and is an outstanding survivor from the eve of the Revolutionary War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"2353\" data-end=\"2366\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2368\" data-end=\"2654\"\u003eComplete four-page issue. 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