Gage, ThomasAn Address of the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of the Town of Boston to His Excellency Governor Gage. [Boston: October 1775] Folio bifolium (398 x 252 mm) printed on the verso of first leaf and recto of the second, dockets and figures on verso; browned, small hole in lower margin of first leaf, separations and repairs with tiny losses at intersecting folds. Brown cloth portfolio. This rare and important broadsheet was issued at the time of the resignation of General Thomas Gage as the British commander-in-chief in the American colonies, a position he had held with only slight interruption from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 until the events of 1775 called him to be removed. The text contains three addresses to Gage by Loyal Bostonian, each of which is followed by Gage's acknowledgement and response. The first—the address "of the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of the Town of Boston," dated 6 October—is printed on the first leaf and is signed in type by ninety-eight prominent Tories, including names such as Brattle, Amory, Faneuil, and Winslow. In his reply to this address Gage laments "the Miseries brought upon this once happy Country through the deep Designs and dark Contrivances of ambitious Me to raise nthemselves from Obscurity to Power, and Emoluments … and in lieu of Liberty, have madly erected a Tyranny upon the Ruins of the most free, happy, and lenient Government." The facing leaf prints two further addresses, the first, undated, from "His Majesty’s Council," the second, which is signed by seventy-six Loyalists, 7 October, from "Gentlemen who were driven from their habitations in the country." Gage was generally well liked in the early years of his appointment (he also served as Governor of Massachusetts from May 1774 to October 1775), but as tensions escalated and martial law was established in the wake of the Boston Tea Party and the punitive Boston Port Bill, he was quickly out of his depth. He was a focus of patriot anger and compounded this with a series of ill-considered decisions, leading to Lexington and Concord, and the debacle of Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775. He was strongly criticized in England, and resigned in October 1775. With Boston tightly besieged, and not offering a good base for military operations throughout the colonies in any case, the British abandoned Boston in March 1776, and many of the signers of these addresses left the city then. While some returned after the war, many never saw America again. Only two copies of this broadsheet appear in the auction records, one of which lacked the second, conjugate leaf with the second and third addresses. REFERENCE Celebration of My Country 58; Bristol B3931; ESTC W685; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 1784; Shipton & Mooney 42775
Gage, ThomasAn Address of the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of the Town of Boston to His Excellency Governor Gage. [Boston: October 1775] Folio bifolium (398 x 252 mm) printed on the verso of first leaf and recto of the second, dockets and figures on verso; browned, small hole in lower margin of first leaf, separations and repairs with tiny losses at intersecting folds. Brown cloth portfolio. This rare and important broadsheet was issued at the time of the resignation of General Thomas Gage as the British commander-in-chief in the American colonies, a position he had held with only slight interruption from the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 until the events of 1775 called him to be removed. The text contains three addresses to Gage by Loyal Bostonian, each of which is followed by Gage's acknowledgement and response. The first—the address "of the Gentlemen and Principal Inhabitants of the Town of Boston," dated 6 October—is printed on the first leaf and is signed in type by ninety-eight prominent Tories, including names such as Brattle, Amory, Faneuil, and Winslow. In his reply to this address Gage laments "the Miseries brought upon this once happy Country through the deep Designs and dark Contrivances of ambitious Me to raise nthemselves from Obscurity to Power, and Emoluments … and in lieu of Liberty, have madly erected a Tyranny upon the Ruins of the most free, happy, and lenient Government." The facing leaf prints two further addresses, the first, undated, from "His Majesty’s Council," the second, which is signed by seventy-six Loyalists, 7 October, from "Gentlemen who were driven from their habitations in the country." Gage was generally well liked in the early years of his appointment (he also served as Governor of Massachusetts from May 1774 to October 1775), but as tensions escalated and martial law was established in the wake of the Boston Tea Party and the punitive Boston Port Bill, he was quickly out of his depth. He was a focus of patriot anger and compounded this with a series of ill-considered decisions, leading to Lexington and Concord, and the debacle of Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775. He was strongly criticized in England, and resigned in October 1775. With Boston tightly besieged, and not offering a good base for military operations throughout the colonies in any case, the British abandoned Boston in March 1776, and many of the signers of these addresses left the city then. While some returned after the war, many never saw America again. Only two copies of this broadsheet appear in the auction records, one of which lacked the second, conjugate leaf with the second and third addresses. REFERENCE Celebration of My Country 58; Bristol B3931; ESTC W685; Ford, Massachusetts Broadsides 1784; Shipton & Mooney 42775
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