The New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury. New York, 27 August 1770. 2 page broadsheet, folio, disbound, 12 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. 

A special "extra edition" broadsheet issue reporting on the Non-Importation Agreements reached by colonial American merchants in the aftermath of various taxes Britain had levied on the colonies. After the implementation of the Stamp Act in 1765, colonial non-importation associations formed to collectively embargo British goods. Though the Stamp Act was repealed the same year, the imposition of the Townsend Duties in 1767 resumed the embargo. By 1770, British merchants had begun to strain under the trade restrictions. Here, a letter from the Committee of Merchants in Boston is reproduced, along with a five-column "Summary of Importations to Boston" listing the quantities of specific goods sent back to England in the wake of the commercial restrictions. 

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