100 dollars reward

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Overview

Year:: 1831
Contributor:: Field, Richard M.
Genre:: broadsides (notices)
Subject:: n-us-ri; African Americans > Crimes against; Riots > Rhode Island > Providence; Providence (R.I.) > Riot, 1831; Providence (R.I.) > History; Providence (R.I.) > Race relations; Rhode Island > History > 1775-1865 > Sources; Rhode Island > Politics and government > 1775-1865 > Sources; United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:: RB
Extent:: 1 broadside ; 23 x 30 cm.
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Notes:: Printed area: 18 x 22 cm.; Double lines beneath title.; Announces reward for information leading to conviction of participants in riot of Sept. 21, 1831, authorized at council meeting Sept. 22, 1831.; At end of text: A true copy: Witness, Richard M. Field, C. Clerk.; First line: At a Town Council holden within and for the town of Providence.

"100 dollars reward" (1831). Rider Broadsides. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:298224/

Rider Broadsides

The Sidney S. Rider Collection, the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, was purchased from Sidney Rider and presented to the library by Marsden Perry in 1903. Rider was a leading Providence bookseller, publisher …
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