First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 14 leaves in fours.
Halkett and Laing VI, 36.
Sabin 251.
Evans 14639.
Hildeburn 3478.
Cronin and Wise, no. 105.
On the title-page Jefferson has written:
By John Adams of Massachusetts. to George Wythe of Virginia. (The second phrase is in a different and later ink from the first.)
Written to counteract Paine’s
Common Sense
, prepared originally for the delegates of North Carolina, but published to meet a wider demand. Later editions had the name
of the author on the title.
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11. [BRAXTON,
Carter.]
An Address to the convention of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia; on the subject of government in general, and
recommending a particular form to their consideration. By a native of that Colony.
Philadelphia: printed by
John Dunlap,
mdcclxxvi
. [1776.]
This tract is no longer in the volume, though called for on the list on the fly-leaf and on the early Library of Congress cards. No copy has been found in the Library of Congress though this copy was evidently
seen by Sabin whose note reads:
Attributed to Carter Braxton, in Jefferson’s handwriting, in the copy in the Library of Congress.
16mo. 13 leaves.
Sabin 7466. Evans 14669. Clayton-Torrence 456.
Carter Braxton, 1736-1797, was one of the signers, with Jefferson, Washington, Peyton Randolph and others, of the Resolutions of May, 1769,
that the Virginia House of Burgesses had the sole right to tax the inhabitants of the Colony, and was later one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence. The conservative principles advocated in this address are supposed to have been instrumental
in his losing his seat in Congress.
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12.
Four Letters on Interesting Subjects.
Philadelphia: printed by
Styner and
Cist,
mdcclxxvi
. [1776.]
8vo. 13 leaves.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 25285.
Evans 14759.
Hildeburn 3367.
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Volume 8
Seven pamphlets bound in one volume, 8vo., original calf, later labels on the back lettered:
Colonial /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 17. /, original silk bookmark. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. The pamphlets numbered in ink serially on the titles
or first pages.
E187 .C72 vol. 17
1.
An Address to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by those freemen, of the city of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the
Mason’s Lodge, by virtue of a general warrant. Signed in council by the vice president of the Council of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia: printed by
Robert Bell,
mdcclxxvii
. [1777.]
First Edition. 8vo. 28 leaves.
Sabin 59610.
Evans 15496.
Hildeburn 3511.
Smith II, 281.
Signed by Israel Pemberton, John Hunt, James Pemberton, John Pemberton, Thomas Wharton, Edward Penington, Thomas Coombe, Henry Drinker, Thomas Fisher, Samuel Pleasants, Samuel R. Fisher, Owen Jones, Junior, Thomas Gilpin, Charles Jervis, Phineas Bond, Thomas Affleck, William Drewet Smith, Thomas Pike, William Smith, (Broker), Elijah Brown, Charles Eddy, Miers Fisher.
According to the
Monthly Review
these freemen were imprisoned on account of their refusal “not to depart from their dwelling-houses and engage to refrain
from doing anything injurious to the United States, by speaking, writing, or otherwise, and from giving intelligence to the
commander of the British forces, or to any other person, concerning publick affairs.”
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