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Date of publication:
1781-1786
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By Philip Freneau. For a discussion of the three known texts of this poem, see "A broadside of Freneau's The British Prison Ship," by Philip Marsh and Milton Ellis, in American literature, v. 10, no. 4, Jan. 1939, p. ...
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Date of publication:
1799
Description:
Twelve stanzas of verse on the death of George Washington; first line: My Father! Cries the United States. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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Date of publication:
1799
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Signed: Samuel Smith. Concord gaol, Dec. 26, 1799. Two states noted. The first has imprint as given above, and has a relief cut of a coffin at head of title. The second, without the cut, has imprint: To be sold at Mr. ...
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Date of publication:
1799
Description:
Song in eight numbered stanzas; first line: Come fill each brimming glass, boys. Typographically identical text, with slight variation in title, appears in the July 16, 1799, issue of Spooner's Vermont journal.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1798
Description:
Unsigned preface followed by "Copy of a letter from an American diplomatic character in France to a member of Congress in Philadelphia [i.e., Abraham Baldwin]. 1st March 1798," reprinted from the Nov. 5, 1798, issue of the ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1796
Description:
Opposing the candidacy of John Adams. Signed: Americanus.
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Date of publication:
1796
Description:
Charging Winterbotham with plagiarism and warning booksellers in the United States that reprinting the work violates Belknap's copyright. Signed: I am, gentlemen, your humble servant, Jeremy Belknap.
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Premiums. The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, in order the more effectually to answer the ends of their institution, have agreed to appropriate, annually, a part of their funds to be disposed of in premiums, to the authors of the best performances, inventions, or improvements, relative to certain specific subjects of useful knowledge. The following premiums, therefore, are now proposed by the society.
Date of publication:
1796
Description:
Followed by rules and conditions adopted by the society for the disposition of premiums issued in conformity to the intention of the donor, "Mr. I.H. De Magellan, of London." Signed: Republished by order of the society, ...
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Date of publication:
1796
Description:
Elegiac epistle, first line: Daughters of Eve and sons of men. Includes also List of those who died, and four additional stanzas of verse entitled, Invitation to the inhabitants of Newburyport who have fled to the country, ...
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Proposals. By the president and directors of the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, no. 16, State-Street, Boston, for insuring houses, stores, and other buildings, goods, wares, merchandize, and household furniture of all kinds, on land, against fire.
Date of publication:
1795
Description:
Nine numbered "Rates of annual premiums for insurance against fire," and sixteen numbered "Conditions," available to citizens of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Dated: Boston, the second day ...
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Date of publication:
1795
Description:
Twenty-three numbered questions with answers, in three columns; signed and dated: Published by order of the Immigrant Society in Boston. Thomas Russell, president. Jedidiah Morse, corresponding secretary. Boston, October ...
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Date of publication:
1795
Description:
Circular letter advertising a course of lectures on mineralogy; includes a syllabus. Signed: Benjamin Henfrey. From the Gap-Copper-Mines, Lancaster County. Ascribed to the press of John Snowden and William M'Corkle by Evans.
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Date of publication:
1795
Description:
Oliver Evans's 'The young mill-wright & miller's guide' was "printed for, and sold by the author" at Philadelphia in 1795. Text in two columns.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1795
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Signed: David Rittenhouse [and four others]. Managers. Dated: Philadelphia, May 18, 1795. Ascribed to the press of Zachariah Poulson, Jr. by Evans.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1795
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Signed: Go: Washington. By the president. Edm: Randolph. READEX NOTE: The Massachusetts Historical Society copy reporduced lacks 'By authority' and the arms called for by Evans, and may be a trimmed copy. The Houghton ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1794
Description:
In five stanzas; first line: How blest the life a sailor leads. Without music. Another edition, with music (Evans 27647), has title: America, commerce, & freedom. Place and date of publication supplied by Clarkin.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1794
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Song in six stanzas; first verse, printed with music, begins: Columbia! Columbia! to glory arise. "Columbia was written and set to music by [Timothy] Dwight in 1777, while he was serving as chaplain in General Parsons ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1793
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Signed: New-York, November 25, 1793. G. Baker, keeper of the museum. Text in three columns. Relief cuts at head with legend: The king of the vultures. The ourang outang; or, Wild-woman of the woods. The East-India porcupine.
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Proclamation. By the President of the United States. Whereas it appears, that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great-Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part; and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should, with sincerity and good faith, adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers ... Done at the city of Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three ...
Date of publication:
1793
Description:
Signed: Go. Washington. By the president. Th: Jefferson. At foot: The patrons of the Argus, shall be served with their papers in the afternoon of to-morrow. The Argus was printed at Boston by Edward Eveleth Powars. Printed ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1793
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Verse in 27 stanzas: first line: Oh, may this loud and sudden call, to us a warning be. Imprint supplied by Alden. Printed in two columns.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1792
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Song in ten numbered stanzas; first line: When form'd by God's creating hand. Followed by two stanzas of chorus, numbered eleven and twelve; first line: Hail! Great Columbia! favour'd soil. Also appears on p. 56-58 of ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1792
Description:
Signed: Michael Trappel, superintendant. Newark, June 5, 1792. Ascribed to the press of John Woods by Evans.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1792
Description:
Date of publication supplied by Evans.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1791
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Concerns procedures for obtaining fresh water from salt water, and the alleged discovery of a new method by Jacob Isaacks. Signed and dated: Th: Jefferson. Philadelphia, November 21st, 1791. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1790
Description:
Dated: Summer Street, Boston, December 21, 1790. "Gentlemen who have these papers in their hands are desired to return them to the author, or to Isaiah Thomas, Esq. of Worcester, by the 31st of March next." Imprint supplied ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1790
Description:
List of ten numbered items. Signed: Your humble servant, Jeremy Belknap. Summer Street, Boston. March 1, 1790. Ascribed to the press of Thomas and Andrews by Evans.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1790
Description:
"Approved, July the twenty-second, 1790. ... (True copy.) [blank] secretary of state." Another issue, Bristol B7575, has imprint: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1790
Description:
Signed: A true copy: Witness, Henry Ward, sec'ry. Printed area measures 29.3 x 14.3 cm.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1789
Description:
Signed: Rachel Wall. Text in four columns; printed area, including relief cut of hanging at head, measures 38.9 x 28.8 cm.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1788
Author(s):
Unknown author
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Ascribed to the press of Isaiah Thomas by Evans. Text in three columns.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1786
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Signed: Johnson Green. his mark. Worcester gaol, August 16, 1786. Text in five columns; printed area measures 51.6 x 41.7 cm. Fifth column contains: The following poem was written at the request of Johnson Green, by a ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1785
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Attributed to Philip Freneau in BAL. Presumably printed late in 1785 by Bowen and Markland, printers of the Columbian herald, for distribution on or about New Year's day.
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For sale at public vendue, on Thursday the 10th day of March, at the late dwelling house of Pierre Eugene du Simitiere, Esq. in Arch-Street, between Third and Fourth-Streets, where the state lottery office is now kept, the American Musaeum. This curious collection was, for many years, the principal object of Mr. Du Simitiere's attention, and has been thought worthy of notice by both American and European literati: it consists of the the following articles, which will be sold in lots, viz. ...
Date of publication:
1785
Description:
Signed: Matthew Clarkson, Ebenezer Hazard, administrators. The sale was held Mar. 10, 1785. Printed in four columns.
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Date of publication:
1785
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Attributed to Joel Barlow by Harvard University Library. See Zunder, T.A. The early days of Joel Barlow, a Connecticut wit, 1934, p. 189. Dated at end: January 1, 1786. Presumably printed late in 1785 by Elisha Babcock, ...
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Date of publication:
1785
Description:
Signed: Richard Saunders [i.e., Benjamin Franklin]. Date of publication supplied by Evans. Printed in four columns.
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Date of publication:
1784
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Attributed to Joel Barlow. Cf. Zunder, T.A. The early days of Joel Barlow, a Connecticut wit, 1934, p. 176-177, 285. Not dated, but the line, "And bring ... the first happy New-Year ..." suggests that this was the first ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1783
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Attributed to Philip Freneau in BAL. Presumably printed late in 1783 by Hall and Sellers, printers of the Pennsylvania gazette, for distribution on New Year's day.
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Date of publication:
1783
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Signed and dated: Done at Paris, this 3d day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. (L.S.) John Adams, (L.S.) David Hartley, (L.S.) B. Franklin, (L.S.) John Jay. Text in three ...
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Date of publication:
1783
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Attributed to Philip Freneau in BAL. Presumbably printed by Francis Bailey, printer of the Freeman's journal.
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1782
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Attributed to Philip Freneau in BAL. Presumably printed late in 1782 by Hall and Sellers, printers of the Pennsylvania gazette, for distribution on New Year's day.
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Date of publication:
1782
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Attributed to John Trumbull in BAL. Presumably printed late in 1781 by Barzillai Hudson and George Goodwin, printers of Hartford's only newspaper at this time, the Connecticut courant, for distribution on or about New ...
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Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
Date of publication:
1781
Description:
Describing the conviction and judgement passed against Peter Sueman, Nicolaus Andrews, Jost Blecher, John George Grafes, Adam Graves, Henry Schell, and Caspar Fritchie. In English and German. Although Bristol ascribes this ...
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Date of publication:
1781
Description:
Signed: I am with great respect, sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, [blank] The Library of Congress copy is signed in ms.: Th. Jefferson.
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Date of publication:
1781
Description:
Signed: I have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant, [blank]. The Library of Congress copy is signed in ms.: Th. Jefferson. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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Date of publication:
1779
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Signed: An American. Possibly by Luther Martin. Cf. Wheeler. Ascribed to the press of Mary Katherine Goddard by Evans. Date of publication supplied by Shipton & Mooney; erroneously dated 1776 by Evans. Text in three columns.
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Date of publication:
1779
Description:
The earliest known version of the bill, as drafted by Thomas Jefferson. Imprint supplied by Evans.
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Date of publication:
1778
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Describing the causes and progress of the Revolution. Followed by the resolve of Congress, May 9, 1778, that the address be read at religious services throughout the United States, and the order of the Massachusetts Council ...
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Date of publication:
1778
Description:
"[Goss] murdered his wife in Litchfield County, Connecticut, and was suspected of another murder in East Hartford in 1758."--McDade. Date of publication suggested by the New York Public Library. Printed in three columns, ...
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Date of publication:
1778
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Verse of twenty-one numbered stanzas; first line: O come you pious youth! adore. At foot: Composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro man belonging to Mr. Joseph Lloyd, of Queen's Village, on Long-Island, now in Hartford. The above ...
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Date of publication:
1777
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Declaring that all persons accepting the provisions for protection granted by Lord and General Howe's proclamation of November 30, 1776, and refusing to surrender the same, are and will be treated "as common enemies of the ...
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Date of publication:
1776
Description:
"Signed by order, and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary." Printed area measures 40.6 x 28.8 cm.
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For the encouragement of those that shall inlist in the Continental Army --the Congress in their resolves of September 16th, 18th, 19th, October 8th, and November 12th, 1776, engage, that twenty dollars be given as a bounty ... And for their further encouragement, the state of Massachusetts-Bay, has, by a resolve of November 25 last engaged ...
Date of publication:
1776
Description:
Signed: In the House of Representatives, Dec. 4, 1776. The foregoing extracts were read and ordered to be printed. James Warren, speaker. Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed area measures 17.2 x 12.5 cm.
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Date of publication:
1776
Description:
Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed area measures 20.2 x 14.5 cm.
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Date of publication:
1776
Description:
Verse in forty-five stanzas; first line: Come shout Americans with joy. Author from last line: Thy friend E.R. [i.e., Elisha Rich] hath his request. Relief cut at head (Reilly 1134) was also used to illustrate Rich's ...
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Date of publication:
1776
Description:
Signed: By order of Congress, John Hancock, president. Printed area measures 21.0 x 15.4 cm.
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Date of publication:
1776
Description:
Ballad in twelve stanzas, first line: Vain Britons, boast no longer with proud indignity. This song appears, with title, "War and Washington; A song composed at the beginning of the American Revolution," in Sewall, Jonathan ...
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Date of publication:
1776
Description:
"Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress, John Hancock, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary." The only recorded copy, held by the American Philosphical Society, is printed on vellum.
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Date of publication:
1775
Description:
Signed by James Otis and fourteen other members of the Massachusetts Council. "By their honor's command, Perez Morton, dep'y. secr'y." Printed area measures 37.4 x 18.5 cm.
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Date of publication:
1775
Description:
Verse of 235 lines; first line: Tom Tory who not long ago was sent. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in three columns.
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Date of publication:
1775
Description:
Signed: New York, March 4, 1775. Americanus.
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