Knox’s Plan of Militia for the U. S.
vii. [KNOX,
Henry.]
A Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia of the United States. Without name of place or printer, n.d. [
New York,
1786.]
First Edition. 8vo. 17 leaves; the title quoted above is on the recto of the second leaf; the first leaf contains the preliminary
letter of the Secretary of the United States, for the Department of War, signed and dated H. Knox, War-Office, 28th March, 1786.
Sabin 38161.
Evans 20076.
On the upper margin of recto of the first leaf are written in ink the words (
under consideration, being part of a longer inscription, cut away by the binder. Numbered 5 in ink on the title-page.
Henry Knox, 1750-1806, major general, was Secretary of War from 1785 to 1794. He was the founder of the Order of the Cincinnati, see
no. 3024 above.
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Tracts on banks & paper money. viz.................................................................
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Considñs on the bank by James Wilson.
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Address on the abolition of the bank by Gouverneur Morris.
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True interest of the U. S. with respect to State paper money & a bank.
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8
vo.
Dissertations on gov
(
~m
)t. the bank & paper money by T. Paine.
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Essay on credit with remarks on the bank...................................................
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1815 Catalogue, page 106. no. 327, Tracts on banks and paper money, to wit, Wilson, Morris, Paine, 8vo.
This volume of tracts is no longer in the Library of Congress. The contents were contributions to the controversy over the
repeal by Pennsylvania of the charter of the Bank of North America.
Considñs on the bank by James Wilson.
1. [WILSON,
James.]
Considerations on the Bank of North-America.
Philadelphia: printed by
Hall and
Sellers,
1785.
HG2613 .P54 B5
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 18 leaves in fours; on D
2 begins the
Appendix. An Ordinance, to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of North-America.
Sabin 104628.
Evans 19388.
Adams,
Descriptive Bibliography, no. 3.
Miller, page 235.
James Wilson, 1742-1798 [see no. 3013], eventually settled in Philadelphia, and in 1780 acted as legal adviser to Robert Morris in the formation of the Bank of
Pennsylvania.
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Address on the abolition of the bank by Gouverneur Morris.
2. [MORRIS,
Gouverneur.]
An Address to the Assembly of Pennsylvania, on the abolition of the Bank of North-America.
Philadelphia: printed and sold by
Robert Aitken,
m.dcc.lxxxv
. [1785.]
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