Salt-Petre and Gun-Powder. An Act and Law, Made and Passed by the General Court, or Assembly of his Majesty’s English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America, holden at New-Haven, by Special Order of the Governor of Said Colony, on the fourteenth Day of December, A.D. 1775. An Act for encouraging the Manufactures of Salt-Petre and Gun-Powder. [Broadside]
[New London]: Likely Timothy Green, 1776. First Edition. Broadside, small folio measuring 11 x 6 ½ inches, [2] pp. Light wear, near fine overall. Recent scholarship on the American Revolution, such as David C. Hsiung’s Environmental History and the War of Independence: Saltpeter and the Continental Army’s Shortage of Gunpowder.....