Philadelphia: June 28, 1782. Releasing Loyalists at the End of the Revolution. Letter written by Secretary of War... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("B Lincoln") to Governor William Livingston, regarding the release of...
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Providence: John Carter, 1787. First edition. A Landmark of the Principle of Judicial Review. In 1786, the Rhode Island legislature had passed laws requiring the acceptance of Rhode Island paper currency as legal tender without discount and providing that violators should be tried without jury. Varnum, as counsel for Weeden... Read More about The Case, Trevett against Weeden: on Information and Complaint
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Fauquier County [VA]: 3rd May 1759. A LEASE FOR 3 LIVES. A relevant piece of Old Virginia history mapping a section of Lord Fairfax's large land holding and giving insight into the life leases therein. The “Manor of Leeds” was named for Leeds Castle, the seat of the Fairfax family in..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Survey, Signed "Joseph Moffet" to Joseph Williams for a Lott of...
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Philadelphia: J.P. Ayres, 1825. First edition. One of two issues of the first edition, published the same year. Standard biography, with good coverage of significant events in the war. Read More about Life of the Marquis de La Fayette; Major-General in the Service of the United States of America,...
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London: 1811. Walsh founded the first American quarterly, the AMERICAN REVIEW, the same year the present work was published. This is the first separate edition, as the text first appeared in the AMERICAN REVIEW. Read More about An Inquiry into the Past and Present Relations of France and the United States of America
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March 19, 1813. Armstrong (1758-1843) a delagate to the Continental Congress, a U.S. Senator from New York and briefly Secreatry of War under James Madison (1813-4) during the War of 1812. He was forced to resign as Secretary of War in September 1813, after failing to defend Washington from the... Read More about Partially printed document signed ("John Armstrong") as Secretary of War, appointing...
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Providence: Printed by John Carter, [1800]. First Edition. Read More about An Oration Pronounced at the Baptist Meeting-House in Providence, on Tuesday the Seventh of...
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New York: 1900. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "To The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge with regards of Hilary A Herbert.".Henry Cabot Lodge declares in the preface to this book that it deserves "a permanenet place in the Washington Literature". Leila Herbert was the daughter of Secretary of the Navy, etc., but... Read More about The First American His Homes and His Households
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New York: Blue Ribbon Books, [1931]. Read More about George Washington. The Image and the Man
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New York: 1908. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "To Henry Cabot Lodge with high esteem from Lawrence B. Evans - Tufts College June 15, 1909." Read More about Writings of George Washington, edited with introduction and notes by Lawrence B. Evans, PhD
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New York: Dana and Company, 1856. First edition. Watson travelled through most of the American colonies in 1771, though he spent the rest of the war in France. In 1785, after lengthy European travels, he returned to America, and there are numerous acccounts of later travels in upstate New York. Read More about Men and Times of the Revolution: or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, including Journals of Travels in...
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Garden City, NY: Garden City, [1930]. Read More about A Gentleman Rebel. The Exploits of Anthony Wayne
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New Bedford, (Mass.): John Spooner, 1795. First edition. West Answers to Jonathan Edwards's Determinism. The first part of West's defense of free will was printed first in 1793 (Evans 26469 ). As West explains in his "Introduction to the Second Part", he was advised by his publisher to wait for... Read More about Essays on Liberty and Necessity; in which the True Nature of Liberty is Stated and Defended; and...
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Greeneville: July 12th, 1796. Wilkinson anticipates Wayne’s arrival at his quarters, “Lt. Smith my aid de camp, goes in to prepare my old Quarters, with your permission, for the accomodation of my family during our short stay at Fort Washington, and to make some necessary arrangements in my private affairs..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed (“Ja. Wilkinson”) to General Anthony Wayne
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Stamford, Connecticut: 6 June 1776. A Signer Writes One Month Before the Declaration of Independence. William Williams (1731-1811), delegate for Connecticut to the continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes on June 6, 1776, as clerk for the Governor of the Council of Safety to the... Read More about Autograph Document Signed ("Wm Williams, Clerk"), to Connecticut Committee of Pay Table
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[New York]: Belfast printed: New-York, re-printed by H. Gaine, in Hanover-Square, 1776. First American Edition. "A collection of English precedents, relating to the office of a justice of the peace .. To which is prefixed, copy of the commission of the justice of the peace; with some observations thereon."--iv, 86... Read More about The Young Clerk’s Vade mecum: or, Compleat law-tutor. Being a useful collection of a great...
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