[American Revolution]:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE PENNSYLVANIA EVENING POST...TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1776.... An issue of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, published October 8, 1776, containing an account of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence in Georgia, complete with a mock funeral for King George III, as well as news from London of a recent performance by stage actor Samuel Foote in the role of his comedic drag character Lady Pentweazle attended by the King the Queen. On July 2, 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first newspaper to announce independence, and on July 6, 1776, it was the first newspaper to print the text of the Declaration. It took more than a month, however, for news of independence to reach Savannah, Georgia. On August 10, 1776, Georgia became the last of the thirteen newly independent colonies to hold a public reading of the Declaration of Independence. Just over two months later, on October 8, the Pennsylvania Evenings Post printed the following account of the day's events: "SAVANNAH (in Georgia) August 10."A Declaration being received from the Honorable John Hancock, Esq; by which it appeared, that the Continental Congress, in the name, and by the authority of their constituents, had declared, that the United Colonies of North-America are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independant States, and absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, his Excellency the President, and the Honorable the Council met in the Council-Chamber, and read the Declaration.—They then

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