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  A discourse concerning the conversion of the heathen Americans, and the final propagation of Christianity and the sciences to the ends of the earth. In two parts. Part I. Preached before a voluntary convention of the Episcopal clergy of Pennsylvania, and places adjacent, at Philadelphia, May 2d, 1760; and published at their joint request. Part II. Preached before the trustees, masters and scholars of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, at the first anniversary commencement. / By William Smith, D.D. provost of the said college and academy.
  Date of publication:
  1760
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Secker, Thomas, 1693-1768, dedicatee. ; College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia.
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  Dedicated to Thomas Secker. The 1790 edition recorded by Bristol is a ghost of the present edition. Booksellers' advertisement, p. [55-56].
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  A general idea of the College of Mirania; with a sketch of the method of teaching science and religion, in the several classes: and some account of its rise, establishment and buildings. Address'd more immediately to the consideration of the trustees nominated, by the Legislature, to receive proposals, &c. relating to the establishment of a college in the province of New-York. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
  Date of publication:
  1753
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803.
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  Outlining "a purely fictitious institution" to show the kind of college William Smith thought suitable for a new country. The concept informed the founding of the University of Pennsylvania. Cf. Wood, G.B. Early hist. of ...
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  A poem on visiting the Academy of Philadelphia, June 1753. [Three lines in Latin from Virgil]
  Date of publication:
  1753
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803.
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  Dedication to the trustees of the Philadelphia Academy signed by the author on p. iv: William Smith, Philadelphia, June 5, 1753. Smith wrote this poem during his first visit to the new Academy. "Ascribed to B[enjamin] ...
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  A sermon on the present situation of American affairs. Preached in Christ-Church, June 23, 1775. At the request of the officers of the Third Battalion of the city of Philadelphia and district of Southwark. / By William Smith, D.D. Provost of the college in that city.
  Date of publication:
  1775
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803.
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  (Evans-TCP ; no. N11435) Transcribed from: (Readex Archive of Americana ; Early American Imprints, series I ; image set 14460) Images scanned from Readex microprint and microform: (Early American imprints. First series ; ...
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  A sermon preached in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, (for the benefit of the poor) by appointment of and before the general communication of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday December 28, 1778. Celebrated, agreeable to their constitution, as the anniversary of St. John the Evangelist. / By William Smith, D.D. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia.
  Date of publication:
  1779
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Washington, George, 1732-1799, dedicatee. ; Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
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  Dedicated to George Washington by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. Parentheses substituted for square brackets enclosing "for the benefit of the poor" in title. With an errata slip. "... short account of the procession of ...
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  A sermon, on temporal and spiritual salvation: delivered in Christ-Church, Philadelphia, before the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. / By William Smith, D.D. provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. ; Prepared and published at the request of the society.
  Date of publication:
  1790
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania.
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  Delivered July 4th, 1790, in celebration of American independence. Half-title: A sermon, &c. "Proposals for printing by subscription, a body of sermons, upon the most important branches of practical Christianity. By William ...
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  Additions to Plain truth; addressed to the inhabitants of America, containing, further remarks on a late pamphlet, entitled Common sense: wherein, are clearly and fully shewn, that American independence, is as illusory, ruinous, and impracticable, as a liberal reconciliation with Great Britain, is safe, honorable, and expedient. / Written by the author of Plain truth. ; [Six lines of quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1776
  

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  Chalmers, James, 1727?-1806. ; Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Chalmers, James, 1727?-1806. Plain truth; addressed to the inhabitants of America. ; United States. Continental Congress. Extract from the journal of the proceedings ... September fifth, 1774 ...
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  Attributed to Chalmers by T.R. Adams. Erroneously attributed to William Smith by Evans. Issued with: Chalmers, James. Plain truth; addressed to the inhabitants of America ... Philadelphia : R. Bell, 1776 (Bristol B4191). ...
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  An Exercise, containing a dialogue and ode sacred to the memory of His Late Gracious Majesty, George II. Performed at the public commencement in the College of Philadelphia, May 23d, 1761. : The ode written and set to music by Francis Hopkinson, Esq; M.A. in said college.
  Date of publication:
  1761
  

  Author(s):

  Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791. ; Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia.
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  The dialogue was written by Dr. William Smith. Cf. Hopkinson, F. The miscellaneous essays and occasional writings of Francis Hopkinson, Esq., 1792, v. 3.
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  An historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians, in the year 1764. Under the command of Henry Bouquet, Esq: colonel of foot, and now brigadier general in America. : Including his transactions with the Indians, relative to the delivery of their prisoners, and the preliminaries of peace. : With an introductory account of the preceeding campaign, and battle at Bushy-Run. : To which are annexed military papers, containing reflections on the war with the savages; a method of forming frontier settlements; some account of the Indian country, with a list of nations, fighting men, towns, distances and different routs. : The whole illustrated with a map and copper-plates. / Published from authentic documents, by a lover of his country.
  Date of publication:
  1765
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Hutchins, Thomas, 1730-1789.
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  Attributed to William Smith in the Dictionary of Amer. biography. Sometimes attributed to Thomas Hutchins. Two states of gathering A noted, with and without Latin mottoes on verso of title page. Two states of gathering K ...
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  An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania. With an appendix, containing, abstracts of the acts of the Legislature since the year 1790, and their grants of money for improving roads and navigable waters throughout the state; to which is annexed, "an explanatory map." / Published by direction of the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. ; [Twenty two lines of verse]
  Date of publication:
  1795
  

  Author(s):

  Morris, Robert, 1734-1806. ; Smith, William, 1727-1803. ; Howell, Reading, 1743-1827, cartographer. ; Trenchard, James, b. 1747, engraver. ; Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company. ; Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.
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  Evans notes Robert Morris and William Smith as possible authors. "An act to enable the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation ... to raise, by way of lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand ...
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