"Pennsylvania Evening Post" with an early reference to "Minutemen" — October 31, 1775

December 31, 1775 issue of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, Volume 1, Number 121, with one of the earliest references to "minute men." The newspaper is offered in an archival portfolio. You could also have it framed, if you wish.  Newspaper size: 10" x 16" (folded) A news report on the front page, right hand column, includes early references to "Minutemen." Pictured below and transcribed here: WILLIAMSBURG, 0ct. 21.        Some time last week Lord Dunmore was alarmed with information that nineteen pieces of cannon were fitted up, and would be soon placed on the wharves, &c. in Norfolk, to annoy the ships of war; and that a number of men were daily expected from Williamsburg, who were to fire them from behind hogsheads filled with sand. Yesterday se’n night, in consequence of the above intelligence, his Lordship sent on shore a party of soldiers, under command of two officers, who marched through Norfolk to the place where the cannon lay, destroyed seventeen of them, and carried off t