The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser, February 18, 1779; printed and sold by John Dunlap. "W.H.D. TO THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN" dated Philadelphia, February 13th, 1779; response and point-by-point rebuttal to the King’s speech to both houses of Parliament on November 27, 1778. [William Henry Drayton—the first prominent Carolinian to openly call for the establishment of a new government and separation from Great Britain; in 1778 he became president of South Carolina; played a prominent role in drafting a new constitution; and was elected to Congress, where he served on more than eighty committees in the next seventeen months].
Report from Williamsburg that "General Lincoln has had an engagement with the enemy at Savannah, in Georgia, wherein about 300 men were slain on both sides. The militia were turning out briskly, and the General expected soon to be able to dislodge the enemy." Reports from London that the "King of Naples and the Sicilies has formally declared its ports open to our commerce."
Back page advertisement for Doctor Baker, Surgeon—Dentist, from Williamsburg, Virginia; "Dr. Baker "may be had at his lodgings at Mrs. Pyle’s, in Second-Street, below the City Tavern, and opposite Mr. Affleck’s, Cabinet-maker" in Philadelphia. [Dr. Baker was George Washington’s dentist—On 13 October 1773, Washington noted in his diary that "Mr. Baker Surgeon Dentist" had arrived at Mount Vernon that afternoon. The dentist stayed several days and charged £5, according to the planter’s accounts.]
With the Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser, February 20, 1779; printed and sold by John Dunlap. Correspondence and sworn statement of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson [She moved in the highest levels of Philadelphia Society, is credited with introducing the literary salon to America, and has been called the most learned woman in America]. Philadelphia, General Assembly—An Act to increase the fees on tavern-licenses, the fines on tippling houses, and the rates of excise. Lottery-Office report. ERRATA in the piece of W.H.D. to the King of Great-Britain.
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