[OLIVE BRANCH PETITION]. PAINE, Thomas (1737-1809), editor. The Pennsylvania Magazine: or, American Monthly Museum for August 1775. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1775. Disbound magazine. 8vo (210 x 133 mm). Text in double columns, woodcut vignette on title (lacking map of Boston). (Browning and spotting throughout). THE ONLY PERIODICAL PUBLISHED IN AMERICA DURING THE REVOLUTION, with mentions of the locally drafted Olive Branch Petition and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The Olive Branch Petition was drafted by John Dickinson and adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent by the citizens of the British colonies in America to King George III as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The King refused to consider the petition, thus justifying John Adams’ position that war was inevitable, which gave him and a small group of delegates the opportunity to push for Independence. Mott, American Magazines I, pp. 87-91; Richardson, p. 368; Sabin 60346 (“a periodical of great rarity”).