Advertisement! To the several printers in Hartford, New-Haven, New-London and Norwich
Subtitle: Pray print the following immediately! ... Wanted! Seventeen fool's coats, and seventeen caps ... they must be delivered at Middletown, on Friday the first day of April next ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43750; Early American imprints -- no. 47696
Publisher: Printed by Moses H. Woodward?
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn.?
Language: eng
Subjects: April Fools' Day
Notes: Dated and signed: March 19. Sancho Panca.

Place and date of publication suggested by the Rosenbach Foundation. Moses H. Woodward was the only printer in Middletown in 1796.

Probably an April Fools' Day prank. There is no evidence of a convention in Middletown in 1796.

Bristol B5003

Shipton & Mooney 43750

Shipton & Mooney 47696