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The ASSOCIATION of the continental CONGRESS,
held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774
[Williamsburg: Printed by John Pinkney, operating Clementina Rind’s Press for the benefit of her children, circa 7-14 November 1774]
being the only known surviving exemplar of printer John Pinkney’s separate half-sheet edition of the First Continen-tal Congress’s October 20, 1774, Articles of Association, including Article Two cancelling all colonists’ participation in the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved African-born men, women, and children and the typeset signatures of JOHN ADAMS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, PATRICK HENRY, RICHARD HENRY LEE, JOHN JAY, JOHN RUTLEDGE and forty-five (sic: see within) other Congressional delegates, printed circa 7-14 November 1774 for signing by adult white male Virginians and thereafter inscribed by Virginia Burgess William Cabell, Col. Hugh Rose, and other residents of Amherst County circa December 1774, as shown and detailed throughout the following catalogue.
Condition: Wholly untrimmed, wide-margined half-sheet separated across medial horizontal fold and along bottom half of medial vertical fold with associated infinitesimally small loss along those separations. Edges slightly chipped and ruffled; internally chipped at three fold intersections with small losses to, or of, 46 printed words distributed among the Second, Third, Eleventh, and Twelfth Articles. Professionally stabilized with tissue paper circa (we think) 1920-1950, now requiring simple reversal and re-mending on the verso’s unprinted bottom half.
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