4 pages, bifolium, (390 x 249 mm). Unbound as issued. (Stab-holes along centerfold, some browning or staining.) Provenance: George Thatcher (contemporary signature). 

AN EARLY NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE BRITISH SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN

Issued less than two weeks after Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown on 19 October 1781. With an update from Fishkill: "We learn that General Lincoln received the captured Lord Cornwallis, and that the army played Yankee doodle when the British army marched to lay down their arms."  The issue includes a printing of a note from Cornwallis, Oct. 17, 1781: "I PROPOSE a cessation of hostilities for twenty-four hours, and that two officers may be appointed by each side to meet at Mr. Morris's house to settle terms for the surrender of the forts of York and Gloucester. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient and most Humber servant, CORNWALLIS." Also printed is information from Washington: "His Excellency Gen. Washington granted a cessation of two hours, from the delivery of his answer, and several other letters passed between the two Generals. Commissioners were appointed and articles of Capitulation settled and compleated the 18th."  The issue prints the 14 articles of Capitulation.