I am presently working with the issues of the Pennsylvania Gazette printed in York in 1777-1778. In 1934 Henry Young, who at the time was most of the staff of the Historical Society of York County, gathered photostatic copies of most of issues from libraries around the county. He even received a copy of one issue from the British Museum.
Click here for more information on the York-printed Pennsylvania Gazette.
The news printed in the papers is invaluable in putting the Revolutionary War into context, but the local ads give us a glimpse of life in York during the time Congress met here.
The first thing that came to mind after reading the ad for dry goods below was: "What are they talking about?" I've found some of the definitions, with the help of Google and Dictionary.com. I've added those annotations following the transcription of the ad. See if you can figure them out first.
