City of Brotherly Love (1779)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> the City of Brotherly Love for Sunday's game. Any earlier cites for this
> on America's Historical Newspapers? ... ...

No, but here's one from another database:

1764 (title) An Account of two terrible fires. Which happened in the City
of Brotherly-Love, on Friday the 26th of October. From fire lightning, and
tempest Good Lord deliver us. (Evans Digital Edition)

Fred Shapiro

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