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For
your consideration:
“We
Ought . . . to Prepare for
Our Defence”
West,
Benjamin. The
New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for the year of our Lord
Christ 1775: ... calculated for the meridian of Providence,
in New-England, lat. 41° 51' n. and 71° 16' w. from the Royal Observatory
at Greenwich; but may serve all the adjacent provinces. Providence: Printed
and sold, wholesale and retail, by John Carter, [1774]. Small 8vo (17 cm; ).
[12] ff.
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the
tea destroyed at Boston shall be paid for.”
The last page here, while hoping for peace and amity based on a British change of mind and attitude, makes it very clear what a serious militia (such, for example, as Rhode-Island has) can do against great armies!
• Evans 13764; Alden, Rhode Island, 530; Drake, Almanacs,
12842; ESTC W22707. Not in Adams, American Independence, but that conceivably
was deliberate. Uncut; stitched as issued. Browned, tattered, handsoiling,
bug-spotting and an inkblot at lower edge; small piece torn from title-leaf
and same leaf with pin-prick holes not affecting readability. 
Looks
like a survivor of the American Revolution, which it is. (30423)
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