Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle.
Contributors: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, printer.; Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886, former owner.; Pratt, W., binder.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin Franklin
Published: 1782
Place of publication: [Passy
Language: eng
Subjects: Literary forgeries and mystifications -- Early works to 1800.; Scalping -- Early works to 1800.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Propaganda.; Boston (Mass.) -- Newspapers.
Genres: Early works to 1800.; Newspapers.
Other titles: Franklin's supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle; Boston, March 12. Extract of a letter from Capt. Gerrish, of the New-England Milinia [sic], dated Albany, March 7; Independent chronicle and the universal advertiser.
Notes: A fictitious newspaper written by Benjamin Franklin and printed by him on his press at Passy, France. Cf. ESTC.
Caption title.
Head of first column reads: "Boston, March 12. Extract of a letter from Capt. Gerrish, of the New-England Milinia [sic], dated Albany, March 7", alleging that American Indians were sending scalps of frontier colonialists to the British government.
At head of title: Numb. 705.
Sheet printed in two columns on recto and verso.
Sheet 35 x 23 cm. folded to 15 x 10 cm. and bound with 6 blank pages into book 16 x 11 cm.
LC copy has ms. note on front free-endpaper by Henry Stevens. Has bookplate of Henry Stevens. Signed binding: "Bound by W. Pratt for H. Stevens 1882".
ESTC N64346