County of Essex, and state of Massachusetts-Bay.
Subtitle: Gentlemen, The inhabitants of the town of Newbury-Port in town meeting assembled have adverted to the Constitution, and form of government, lately proposed by the convention ... They have considered the principles upon which that Constitution is formed, and ... found some of them inconsonant ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43516.
Publisher: Printed by John Mycall
Published: 1778
Place of publication: [Newburyport, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Massachusetts.; Constitutional conventions -- Massachusetts.; Representative government and representation -- Massachusetts.; Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Notes: Concerning the principles of civil society and the provisions of the Constitution found inconsonant with those principles. Proposing a county convention to be held at Ipswich to deliberate further on this matter.

Signed: By order of the town. Select men thereof.

Addressed and dated at end: To the inhabitants of the town of Newbury-Port, March 31, 1778.

Although Bristol suggests Salem, Mass., as the place of publication, the broadside was probably printed at Newburyport by that town's only printer in 1778, John Mycall.

Bristol B4749.

Shipton & Mooney 43516.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 2162.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43516)