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An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum
An address to the people of Great Britain, on the utility of refraining from the use of West India sugar and rum. The sixth edition, corrected. Sunderland [Eng.] : Printed and sold by T. Reed, Bookseller, High-Street, Sunderland, 1791.
"Price 1d. or fourteen for a shilling."
"N.B. Persons wanting a larger Number to give away may be supplied at Five Shillings per Hundred, by applying to T. Reed."
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A view of the controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies : including a mode of determining their present disputes, finally and effectually; and of preventing all future contentions : in a letter, to the author of A full vindication of the measures of the Congress, from the calumnies of their enemies
A view of the controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies : including a mode of determining their present disputes, finally and effectually; and of preventing all future contentions : in a letter, to the author of A full vindication of the measures of the Congress, from the calumnies of their enemies / by A.W. Farmer, author of Free thoughts. New York, printed ; |a London : Reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange, 1775.
Dated on p. 90: December 24, 1774.
Originally published: New York : Rivington, 1774.
"That ... Seabury was the author of the ... [three] pamphlets signed A.W. Farmer, there is no longer any doubt; but through an error of judgment ... their authorship has been attributed to some of his contemporaries, notably to Isaac Wilkins."--Samuel Seabury. Letters of a Westchester farmer ... ed. ... by C.W. Vance. 1930, p. 19.
Sometimes attributed to Seabury and Wilkins jointly.
Rockefeller Library copy lacks half-titlte.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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Thoughts on the letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to the sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America
Thoughts on the letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to the sheriffs of Bristol, on the affairs of America / by the Earl of Abingdon. Oxford, Printed for W. Jackson : sold by J. Almon, in Piccadilly, and J. Bew, in Paternoster-Row, London ; and by the Booksellers of Bristol, Bath, and Cambridge.
"Price one shilling" within square brackets on title page.
Marginalia and corrections in a contemporary hand appear throughout the volume.
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The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country
The History of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system. With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions - The benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians - And the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years. London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXV [1775].
Page 102 wrongly numbered 101.
Pages 1-220 contain arguments on the descent of the American Indians from the Jews; pages 221-374 contain accounts of the Katahba, Cheerake, Muskohge, Choktah, and Chikkasah nations; pages 376-448 contain general observation; pages 449-464 contain an appendix, "Advice to statesmen; shewing the advantages of mutual affection between Great Britain and the North American Colonies.
"A Map of the American Indian Nations, adjoining to the Missisippi, West & East Florida, Georgia, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia. &c." engraved by John Lodge.
Signatures: {*}2, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Nnn4
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An answer to the Considerations, occasioned by the Craftsman upon excise, so far as it relates to the tobacco trade
An answer to the Considerations, occasioned by the Craftsman upon excise, so far as it relates to the tobacco trade. London : Printed for E. Nutt at the Royal Exchange, MDCCXXXIII [1733].
Listed under the pseudonym Caleb D'Anvers by Jerome E. Brooks in George Arents' Tobacco, its history, v. 3, no. 672, with a note stating that it was written by Nicholas Amhurst or William Pulteney, Earl of Bath. The Dict. of national biography, in its article on Amhurst, ascribes the pamphlet to him. Both Amhurst and Pulteney wrote for the Craftsman.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of William Tarun Fehsenfeld with his bookplate.
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The right method of addressing the Divine Majesty in prayer : so as to support and strengthen our faith in dark and troublesome times : set forth in two discourses on April 5, 1770 : being the day of general fasting and prayer through the province : and in the time of the session of the General Court at Cambridge
The right method of addressing the Divine Majesty in prayer : so as to support and strengthen our faith in dark and troublesome times : set forth in two discourses on April 5, 1770 : being the day of general fasting and prayer through the province : and in the time of the session of the General Court at Cambridge / by Nathaniel Appleton, Pastor of the first Church in Cambridge. Boston : |b Printed by Edes and Gill, Printers to the Honorable House of Representatives, MDCCLXX [1770].
Last page blank.
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A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America : A.D. 1814, with an appendix and two maps
A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America : |b A.D. 1814, with an appendix and two maps. London : Printed for J.M. Richardson, Cornhill, by T. Davison, Whitefriars, 1814.
Appendix: On the conduct of the government of the United States towards the Indian tribes: p. [27]-39.
Attributed to Nathaniel Atcheson.
Map of Passamaquoddy Bay from actual survey -- A Map of the frontier of British North America and the United States describing the bounday line as fixed by the Treaty of 1783 which has never been respected by the American government.
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A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America : with an appendix
A compressed view of the points to be discussed, in treating with the United States of America : with an appendix / by the author of "American encroachments on Britsh rights." [London : s.n.], |c 1815.
Detached from the Pamphleteer, London, v.5, p. [105]-139.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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George B. Major account with Allen C. Barham, 1849 February 16 - September 17
Account of George B. Major with Allen C. Barham for foodstuffs, plug tobacco and whiskey. The account was signed over to Joseph A. S. Barham by Allen C. Bharham who received payment on December 18, 1849. -
An oration : delivered at the North Church in Hartford, at the meeting of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati, July 4th, 1787. In commemoration of the independence of the United States
An oration : delivered at the North Church in Hartford, at the meeting of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati, July 4th, 1787. In commemoration of the independence of the United States / by Joel Barlow, esquire. Hartford : Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, near the bridge, [1787?].
Title page inscribed: "To John Williams, Esq from his friend The Author."
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Certificate of William C. Beall, 1792 June 6
Certificate of William C. Beall, acknowledging receipt of funds in accordance with the will of Richard Corbin for the legacy left to Corbin's granddaughter, Ann Corbin Beall. Witnessed by Francis Corbin. -
The journal of a two months tour : with a view of promoting religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pensylvania, and of introducing Christianity among the Indians to the westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains To which are added, remarks on the language and customs of some particular tribes among the Indians, with a brief account of the various attempts that have been made to civilize and convert them, from the first settlement of New England to this day
The journal of a two months tour; with a view of promoting religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pensylvania, and of introducing Christianity among the Indians to the westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains. To which are added, remarks on the language and customs of some particular tribes among the Indians, with a brief account of the various attempts that have been made to civilize and convert them, from the first settlement of New England to this day / by Charles Beatty, A.M. London : Printed for William Davenhill, No. 8 in Cornhill, and George Pearch, No. 12 in Cheapside, MDCCLXVIII [1768].
Rockefeller Library copy from the John Carter Brown library with its bookplate.
Release stamp of the JCB Library on the bookplate.
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The Speech of Mr. Beaufoy : Tuesday, the 18th June, 1788, in a committee of the whole House, on a bill for regulating the conveyance of negroes from Africa to the West-Indies, to which are added observations on the evidence adduced against the bill
The Speech of Mr. Beaufoy : Tuesday, the 18th June, 1788, in a committee of the whole House, on a bill for regulating the conveyance of negroes from Africa to the West-Indies, to which are added observations on the evidence adduced against the bill. London : Printed by J. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, MDCCLXXXIX [1789].
Prefatory note by G. Sharp, chairman of the Committee of the Society instituted in 1787 for the purpose of effecting the abolition of the slave trade.
Printer's ornament.
Rockefeller Library copy with the signature of Nicholas Pearsal.