Performance Handbill, April 1771.

• imprint_number: 1771.003
• title: By the American Company: at the theatre in Fredericksburg on ... being the ... of ... will be presented a comedy called The Provoked husband: or, A journey to London ... to which will be added [Love a-la-mode].
• sequence_number: 3
• year: 1771
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Purdie & Dixon
• author: American Company of Comedians
• notes: Only known copy is held in the special collections of the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg; item bears simple date of "May 1" at head of page; the Rockefeller Library reports that this performance occurred during the 1771 residence of the company of Lewis Hallam, Jr. (1740-1808) in Williamsburg, so the date assigned here. The American Company of Comedians advertised exclusively in the Purdie & Dixon Gazette in 1771, indicating that this also issued from their press; so the attribution here.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • John Dixon Sr.
  • Alexander Purdie, Sr.

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