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This is an original, framed front and back in glass, four page folio size newspaper dated Friday, August 20, 1773 entitled "Maryland Journal and the Baltimore Advertiser" printed by William Goddard, "at the Printing Office in Market Street, opposite the Coffee House". It is Volume One, Number One and the first front page article is a letter from Goddard to the public apoligizing that the first edition was later than expected and describing the philosophies and standards that the paper would represent. Excerpts: That the Paper...shall contain not only the Public News, which I shall collect and compile with the greatest Care, but on Failure of Anecdotes of that Sort, I will supply the Room with such moral Pieces, from the best Writers, as will conduce most to inculcate good Principles and humane Behaviour, and now and then with Pieces of Wit and Humour, that tend bot to amuse and instruct. That I Shall always publish with Pleasure whatever is sent me in Favour of Liberty and the Rights of Mankind, provided the Language is decent and compatible with good Government; but I am resolved that my Paper shall be FREE and of NO PARTY. The rest of page one is taken with "A letter from the Bishop Of C. to the Earl of Bellamont, on his late duel with Lord Townshend" A rather large entry on the back page of the paper relates to George Washington's estate, Mt. Vernon: (Ther is slight loss due to weakness in the fold of the paper): Mount Vernon In Virginia, July 15, 1773 The Subscriber having obtained Patents for upwards of TWENTY THOUSAND Acres of LAND on the Ohio and Great Kanhawa (Ten Thousand of which are situated on the banks of the first -mentioned rivert, between the mouths of the two Kanhawas, and the remainder on the Great Kanhawa, or New River, from the mouth, or near it, upwards, in one continued survey) proposes to divide the same into any sized tenements that may be desired, and lease them upon moderate terms, allowing a reasonable number of years rent free, provided, within the space of two years from next October, three acres for every fifty contained in each lot, and proportionably for a lesser quantity, shall be cleared, fenced, and tiled; and that, by or before the time limited for the commencement of the first rent, five acres for every hundred, and proportionably, as above shall be enclosed and laid down in good grass for meadow; and moreover, that at least fifty good fruit trees for every like quantity of land shall be planted on the Premises. Any persons inclinable to settle on these lands may be more fully informed of the terms by applying to the subscriber, near Alexandria, or in his absence, to Mr. Lund Washington; and would do well in communicating their intentions before the 1 st of October next, in order that a sufficient number of lots may be laid off to answer the demand. As these lands are amont the first which have been surveyed in the part of the country they lie in, it is almost needless to premise that none can exceed them in luxuriance of soil, or convenience of situation, all of them lying upon the banks either of the Ohio or Kanhawa, and abounding with fine fish and wild fowl of various kinds, as also in most excellent meadows, many of which (by the bountiful hand of nature) are, in their present state, almost fit for the scythe. From every part of these lands water carriage is now had to Fort Pitt, by an easy communication; and from Fort Pitt, up the Monongabela, to Redstone, vessels of convenient burthen, may and do pass continually; from whence, by means of Cheat River, and other navigable branches of the Monongabela, it is thought the portage to Potowmack may, and will, be reduced within the compass of a few miles, to the great ease and convenience of the settlers in transporting the produce of these lands...have now actually passed the seals for these several tracts offered to be leased, settlers on them may cultivate and enjoy the lands in peace and safety, notwithstanding the unsettled counsels respecting a new colony on the Ohio; and as no right money is to be paid for these lands, ...
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