New York: September 7, 1737. On a Controversial Election. Colden (1688-1776) a physician and natural scientist, served as... Read More about Autograph letter signed, to his wife, on the contentious election of 1737 and other news from New...
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London: Published by Printed for David Henry, and sold by Francis Newbery, 1769; London: [William Bowyer], 1764. The fourth edition, being the first collected edition and by far most desirable edition, containing for the first time complete notes on all the experiments, as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin..... Read More about Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America. To which are added,...
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Annapolis: Jonas Green, 1755. Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign. Passed in December 1754 "to raise a Body of able Land-men, for his Majesty's Service, against the French and their Allies on this Continent", this separately-printed session law essentially authorizes a draft system for forcing "all and every able-bodied Freeman who live..... Read More about Act of Assembly passed in December, 1754. At a session of Assembly, begun and held at the city of...
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[Great Britain]: [circa 1761]. Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the..... Read More about Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province...
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. Third Edition. Read More about The Colonial Furniture of New England. A Study of the Domestic Furniture in Use in the...
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Boston: Jan. 11, 1785. Letter written by James Sullivan, a Massachusetts lawyer and politician, to Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, discussing the need for frugality to be a core American virtue. Sullivan was involved in the convention that wrote the state's first constitution, and led the movement to secure representation in..... Read More about Autograph letter Signed, from James Sullivan to Elbridge Gerry, calling for frugality as a...
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Saco [Maine]: May 21 1722. Written on the eve of Dummer's War from the frontier of what is now Maine, reading: “Capt. Peprell Sr plaise to pay unto Mr. John Brown on order of ten shillings and place it in act of fr your Humble svt Henry Gilbert" Sir William..... Read More about Autograph Document, Signed ("Henry Gilbert"). To Capt. Pepperell
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London: John Baskett, 1732-1752. Coffee plants were first introduced to Jamaica in 1730. Read More about Anno Regni Georgii II ... An Act for encouraging the Growth of Coffee in His Majesty's...
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New York: Grolier Club, 1894. One of 312 copies on hand-made paper. Printed by the De Vinne Press. With pencil note on pastedown by “CF” that it was from the library of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946); bought at Dauber & Pine from a collection of Pinchot family books. Gifford..... Read More about Facsimile of The Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties Province of New York...
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Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1906. First edition. Read More about American Silver, the Work of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Silversmith. Exhibited at the...
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[Honolulu]: [1830]. "The text of this was drawn up in Boston just prior to the departure of the first American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii. Although issued without an imprint or colophon, it can be dated to 1830. The last signatories on this are those of the Third Company of missionaries..... Read More about Constitution of the Original Hawaiian Church
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Boston: Printed for, and sold by S. Eliot in Cornhil, 1743. Read More about The Faithful Minister the Glory of Christ Exhibited in a Sermon Deliver'd at the Ordination of...
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Boston: in New-England : Printed by J. Draper, printer to His Excellency the governour and Council, for J. Eliot, 1736. First edition, no half-title. Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) was an American clergyman and the president of Harvard College (1737-1769), whose notions of democracy and government by the people preceeded and foreshadowed the..... Read More about Integrity and Religion to be principally regarded, by such as design others to Stations of...
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Philadelphia: 1935. First edition, No. 116 of the Deluxe Benefactors Issue of 400 copies only. With errata slip. Read More about Blue Book Philadelphia Furniture. William Penn to George Washington with Specific Reference to...
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Boston: January 15, 1772. Final colonial Massachusetts judicial appointments. Massachusetts Bay governor Thomas Hutchinson makes what would prove to be the final colonial appointment of judges to the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. "The last appointment ... of Judges to this court, bears date January 15, 1772, and embraces Caleb..... Read More about Document signed ("Hutchinson"), appointing Caleb Cushing, Andrew Oliver Jr, William...
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Kittery [ME]: Feburary 16, 1764. A Brother's Debt Paid. A receipt from Caleb Emery to his brother, Daniel Emery, Jr. (1697-1778) reading: "Received of Daniel Emery junr. Five Shillings Lawfull (sic) money in Full of all accounts, Debts, Dues & Demand of any sort whatsoever to the Date hereof -..... Read More about Autograph Receipt Signed ("Caleb Emery") received of Daniel Emery Jr
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New York: 13th April 1764. Father of the member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman. Read More about Signed partial document
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Amsterdam: Chez Les Héritiers E. van Harrevelt, 1784. First edition. Joseph Mandrillon was born in Bourg, France in 1743 and died in 1794, guillotined during the French Revolution. He came to America in the hopes of establishing a banking-house, and returned to France at the beginning of the French Revolution..... Read More about Le Spectateur Americain, ou Remarques Generales sur l'Amerique Septentrionale et sur la...
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Newbury [MA]: June, 1761. A deed of conveyance also signed by Mary Greenleaf, Jacob Boardman, and Justice of the Peace, Nathan Hale. Read More about Autograph document signed ("Richd Greenleaf") conveying "a Certain Dwelling House...
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[Boston]: July 1, 1732. Tax on Strong Drink. Included is an act on retail sale of wines, liquors, and other strong drink, with a detailed description of how the tax would work and the penalties for noncompliance; an act for providing payment to jurors; and acts for erecting a new..... Read More about Acts and Laws ... An Act for Granting unto His Majesty an Excise upon Wines, Liquors, and other...
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[Boston]: 1734. Establishing Rumford in Essex County. Includes an act altering the time of holding the Superiour Court of Judicature; and an act establishing the new town of Rumford in Essex County. Read More about Acts and Laws, May 30, 1733-January 24, 1734, pp. 509-510
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[Boston]: 1733. Providing 76,500 Pounds for Public Debt. Includes an act for settling intestate estates which include property in several counties; an act to loan 100 pounds to the commissioners of Hampshire for the cost of surveying; an act to supply the treasury with the sum of 76,500 pounds for..... Read More about Acts and Laws, May 30-October 3, 1733
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Boston: B. Green … for Benjamin Eliot …, 1726. Laws & Charter of Mass., 1726 - with King George’s “Explanatory Charter”. An attractive, unsophisticated copy of this early and important compilation of the Acts and Laws of the Province of Massachusetts, as organized under the terms of the charter of..... Read More about The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the...
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Charlestown, Middlesex [Masachusetts]: 25 August, 1722. Witnessed and signed by "Edwd. Larkin" and "Rebekah Chambers." Alos signed by Charles Chambers Justice of the Peace. Read More about Printed Document, accomplished in manuscript, signed ("Nath. Waters & Benj....
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Boston: Printed at the Repertory Office, 1804. The Legislature had “adopted a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States by apportioning representatives among the States according to the number of free inhabitants; [and] to provide for the choice of Electors of President and Vice President by a General..... Read More about A Defence of the Legislature of Massachusetts, or the Rights of New England Vindicated
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