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A letter from Phocion to the considerate citizens of New-York, on the politics of the day.

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1784

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Urging moderation in the treatment of American loyalists. Attributed to Alexander Hamilton by Evans. Some contemporary editions have "said to be written by Colonel Hamilton" on title page.

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A narrative of the captivity and sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and his family; who were surprised by the Indians, and taken from their farms, on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, in the spring, 1780.

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1784

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Walton, William, 1740-1824.

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"Related by the Gilbert family to William Walton, Benjamin Gilbert's brother-in-law."--Vail, R.W.G. The voice of the old frontier. Sometimes attributed to Thomas Austin. "Thoughts alluding to, and in part occasioned by the ...

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An enquiry into public abuses, arising for want of a due execution of laws, provided for the suppression of vice, in the state of New-Jersey: calculated to draw the attention of the executive authority, and people at large, to the necessity of an united exertion, that may produce a reformation. : [Two lines from Isaiah]

Date of publication:
1784

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Cooper, David, 1725-1795.

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Signed on p. 22: A farmer. Attributed to Cooper in: Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association, v. 26 (1937): 45-48.

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Brief observations on the doctrine of universal salvation, as lately promulgated at New-Haven. By Jonathan Edwards, Pastor of a church in New-Haven. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]

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1784

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Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801.

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Running title: On universal salvation. Advertised as "just published" in the New Haven gazette, Oct. 7, 1784. Errata statement, p. 31.

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The adventures of Colonel Daniel Boon, one of the first settlers at Kentucke: containing the wars with the Indians on the Ohio, from 1769 to 1783, and the first establishment and progress of the settlement on that river. / Written by the colonel himself. ; To which are added, a narrative of the captivity and extraordinary escape of Mrs. Francis [sic] Scott, an inhabitant of Washington-County Virginia ...

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1786

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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. ; Marshall, Humphrey, 1760-1841. and Filson, John, 1753?-1788.

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Transcribed by John Filson from Boone's dictation and "improved" by Humphrey Marshall. First published in: Filson, John. The discovery and settlement and present state of Kentucke, Wilmington, 1784. Cf. Vail, R.W.G. The ...

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