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19 June 1790
Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no.20 (June 19, 1790)]
Whole no. 124. re: Notice of Rhode Island's ratification of the Constitution; Washington's letter to Hebrew Congregation of Savannah; etc.
GLC07270
5 March 1788
Sargent, Winthrop (1753-1820)
At a meeting of the directors and agents of the Ohio Company, at Mr. Rice's Tavern, in Providence, State of Rhode-Island, Wednesday, March 5, 1788.
Discusses agents, shares, and other Ohio Company business. One resolve notes, "That the Directors be requested to pay as early attention as possible to the education of youth, and the promotion of public worship, among the first settlers."
GLC02437.03815
December 1787 - May 1788
Loudon, Samuel (1727?-1813)
The American Magazine.
Contains six monthly issues. Billed as "Containing a Miscellaneous Collection of Original an other Valuable Essays, in Prose and Verse, and Calculated both for Instruction and Amusement." A quote underneath the title reads: "Science the guide, and...
GLC03462
10 March 1790
Fenno, John (1751-1798)
Gazette of the United States. [No. 95 (March 10, 1790)]
First printing of the Census Act signed in type by Washington (p. 1), debate on payment of securities (p. 2-3), and letter signed Rusticus on abolition of slavery and colonization and Quakers (p. 4).
GLC08760
16 April 1791
Newspaper
Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no. 101 (April 16, 1791)]
Contains "Discourse on Davila. No. 30."; article discussing the right of state legislatures to instruct their state's senators in Congress; extract of a report from the London Humane Society; opinions of Delaware representative John Vining on the...
GLC03128
1806
The Koran, commonly called The Alcoran of Mahomet, translated from the original Arabick into French.
The first American edition of the Koran. Printed in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Henry Brewer for Isaiah Thomas, Junior. Rebound in cloth, boxed with original boards. Shaw & Shoemaker 10684.
GLC06127
1803
Murray, John, Jr. (fl. 1803)
[To the Citizens of the United States of America].
Agreed upon at a meeting of Quakers on March 1, 1803 in New York City and issued by the clerk to the meeting, John Murray, Jr. The pamphlet attacks alcohol consumption, taverns, theatres, horse racing, cockfighting, and duels. Printed by Isaac...
GLC05943
1794
Butler, William Orlando (1791-1880)
Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars
Zachary Grey, Ed.. With Hogarth's engravings. With index and errata. Bookplate of John Pollexfen Bastard on front pastedown.
GLC08411
1793
Paine, Thomas
Common sense [with seven other pamphlets from the 1790s]
Paine, Thomas. COMMON SENSE, bound with seven other tracts by Paine. Altogether eight works (in nine parts, one title consisting of two separately issued parts.) A fine collection bound in a single volume, contemp. sheep rubbed, crudely but neatly...
GLC08643
1797
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Printed Quaker petition, containing letters and what is apparently the first printing of the first petition brought before Congress by free Blacks (p. 7) appealing for intervention against the Fugitive Slave Act, which is called "a Flagrant proof of...
GLC07442
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