Description
- Notes:
- Printed area mesures: 23.5 x 14.3 cm.
- At head of title: Providence, July 3, 1779.
- Signed in print at end: A true Copy : Witness, Dwight Foster, Clerk, pro.tem.
- Printed in two columns. Line of type ornaments (Reilly 492) separating text and imprint: Providence: Printed by John Carter.
- Resolution outlining measures to be taken to fight depreciation of public currency.
- First lines of resolution: The general utility secures the happiness of individuals.
- Not in Evans or Bristol.
Access Conditions
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
"At a meeting of the freemen of the town of Providence, legally warned and assembled, on Friday the 2d of July, 1779, to take into consideration the alarming state of the public currency, and consider of measures necessary to be adopted on the occasion"
(1779).
Rider Broadsides.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:351460/
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At a meeting of the freemen of the town of Providence, legally warned and assembled, on Friday the 2d of July, 1779, to take into consideration the alarming state of the public currency, and consider of measures necessary to be adopted on the occasion
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At a meeting of the freemen of the town of Providence, legally warned and assembled, on Friday the 2d of July, 1779, to take into consideration the alarming state of the public currency, and consider of measures necessary to be adopted on the occasion
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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 …...