Continental Congress | The first Hartford edition

Continental Congress

Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774. Containing the Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to the People of Great-Britain, and a Memorial to the Inhabitants of the British American Colonies. Philadelphia: Printed. Hartford: Re-Printed by Eben[ezer]. Watson, [1774]

8vo (235 x 140 mm, uncut). Browned throughout, title-page and last page dust-soiled, fore-edges rather frayed.  Stitched as issued. Navy moiré chemise and slipcase, red lettering piece.

First Hartford edition. The pamphlet also includes "To the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec" (pp. 41–48) which contains an invitation for the province to attend the Continental Congress in 1775: "We do not ask you, by this address, to commence acts of hostility against the government of our common Sovereign. We only invite you to consult your own glory and welfare, and not to suffer yourselves to be inveigled or intimidated by infamous Ministers so far, as to become the instruments of their cruelty and despotism, but to unite with us as in one social compact, formed on the generous principles of equal liberty … In order to complete this highly desirable union, we submit it to your consideration, whether it may not be expedient for you to meet together in your several towns and districts, and elect deputies, who afterwards meeting in a provincial congress, may chuse Delegates, to represent your province in the continental Congress to be held at Philadelphia on the tenth day of May, 1775."

REFERENCE:

Evans 13720, 13730; ESTC W42123, 32256; Howes E247; Trumbull, Connecticut 697