Imprint Record

Extracts from Proceedings of the Continental Congress.

  • Imprint Number: 1774.032
  • Title: Extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774.
  • Sequence Number: 32
  • Year: 1774
  • Place Issued: Williamsburg
  • Issuing Press: Purdie & Dixon
  • Author: Continental Congress of 1774 (First).
  • Notes: Clearly a partial reprint edition of a like-titled imprint "printed by William and Thomas Bradford, October 24th" in Philadelphia (Evans 13713), so likely issued in Williamsburg in November 1774; that circumstance makes this item possibly the last non-newspaper imprint of the firm of Purdie & Dixon, which was dissolved December 18th.

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