8.
Affidavits and depositions, relative to the commencement of the late hostilities in the province of Massachusetts Bay: together
with an address from the Provincial Convention of said province, to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, transmitted to the Congress,
now sitting in this city, and published by their order. Charles Thomson, Secretary.
[?
Philadelphia: printed by
John Dunlap,
1775.]
Folio broadside cut into 15 pieces and mounted on 8vo. sheets and so bound in this 8vo. volume.
Sabin 45622.
Evans 14183.
Not in Hildeburn.
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9. [JOHNSON,
Samuel.]
Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the resolutions and address of the American Congress. The
Fourth edition.
London: printed for
T. Cadell,
mdcclxxv
. [1775.]
8vo. 47 leaves.
Halkett and Laing VI, 12.
Sabin 36303.
Courtney and Smith, page 125.
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English lexicographer. This was one of the political pamphlets written by Johnson after receiving a pension of
£300 a year from the government. According to Boswell more than one insulting passage was cut out by the ministry. The earlier
editions were published in the same year.
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10.
Resistance no Rebellion: in answer to Doctor Johnson’s Taxation no Tyranny . . .
London: printed for
J. Bell,
m dcc lxxv
. (Price
1 s.) [1775.]
First Edition. 8vo. 20 leaves.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 36307.
Courtney and Smith, page 126.
One of the several pamphlets written in answer to Johnson’s
Taxation No Tyranny
.
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11. LEE,
Charles.
Letters of Major General Lee, to the Right Honourable Earl Percy, and Major General John Burgoyne. With the answers.
New-York: printed by
J. Rivington,
m,dcc,lxxv
. [1775.]
First Edition. 8vo. 6 leaves;
A copy of General Burgoyne’s Answer (dated July 8, 1775) to General Lee’s letter of June 7, 1775, on the last 2 leaves, has separate pagination and signatures.
Sabin 37910.
Evans 14150.
The price
6
d, written in ink on the title-page.
Charles Lee, 1731-1782, soldier of fortune and Revolutionary general, was a native of England and served both in the British and American
armies. See also no. 3091 above.
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12.
A Crisis Extraordinary. Wednesday, August 9, 1775. [
Philadelphia: reprinted by
B. Towne,
1775.]
8vo. 8 leaves; signed at the end: Casca. [Price
Four-pence.]
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 58219.
Evans 13995.
Hildeburn 3186.
Several corrections made in ink, not by Jefferson.
Concerns General Gage’s Proclamation. Ascribed by Sabin to Thomas Paine, the author of the pamphlet entitled
The Crisis Extraordinary
, see no. 3138, which pamphlet is omitted by Sabin.
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