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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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Roger Sherman
Engraved portrait of Roger Sherman by Simeon Smith Jocelyn after a painting by Ralph Earle.
Roger Sherman was a merchant, surveyor, publisher and politician. He served in the Connecticut General Assembly before attending the Continental Congress in 1774. He was present during the debates over independence, serving on the committee of five which drafted the Declaration of Independence. He voted for independence and signed the Declaration. After the Revolution, Sherman served in the Connecticut legislature and the United States Congress. He was instrumental in getting the "Connecticut Compromise" adopted by the Constitutional Convention which gave states equal representation in the U.S. Senate.
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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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VIII sonate per cembalo : opera prima
VIII Sonate per cembalo : opera prima / da Dominico Alberti. London : Printed for I. Walsh, in Catharine Street, in the Strand.
Date from Walsh, no. 15.
Virginia association: 1755 Ogle inventory, "Albertis 8 Sonatas 5s."
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Receipt for tuition, 1854 December 21
Receipt for the tuition of the daughter of Mrs. B. Wise signed by S.M. Allen. -
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].
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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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William W. Averell order to Thomas H. Sherwood, 1862 August 21
Order issued by Colonel William W. Averell, commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, to Dr. Thomas H. Sherwood, assistant surgeon of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, dated August 21, 1862. Averell orders Sherwood to assume the administration of the Eastern Virginia Lunatic Asylum (now Eastern State Hospital) in Williamsburg, Virginia. Averell's order directs Sherwood to remain behind and continue at the Asylum even if the town should be retaken by Confederate forces. -
Edmund Bagge account book, 1726-1733
Bound journal of accounts including household accounts and the settlements of the estates of his uncle and aunt, John and Mary Bagge on surviving pages 33-198. Names appearing in the accounts include Katherine Bagge, Robert Brooke, James Curtiss, William Fosset, John Greene, Robert Gresham, Dr. Alexander Parker, Robert Rose, Alexander Spotswood, William Taliaferro, Thomas Waring, and Benjamin Winslow.
The second half of the volume is the diary of the Reverend Robert Rose.
Edmund Bagge (d. 1734) was an Anglican minister serving St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, at the time of his death.