6. [REED,
Joseph.]
Remarks on Governor Johnstone’s Speech in Parliament; with a collection of all the letters and authentic papers, relative
to his proposition to engage the interest of one of the delegates of the State of Pennsylvania, in the Congress of the States
of America, to promote the views of the British Commissioners.
Philadelphia: printed by
Francis Bailey,
m.dcc.lxxix
. [1779.]
4to. 30 leaves in twos; signed and dated at the end: Joseph Reed. Philadelphia, Sept. 8, 1779. This copy lacks the first leaf, probably a half-title; the fore-margins cut down.
Sabin 68570.
Evans 16483.
Hildeburn 3944.
Joseph Reed, 1741-1785, lawyer, Revolutionary statesman and soldier, was military secretary to George Washington, a member of the Continental
Congress, and of the Committee of Safety.
George Johnstone, 1730-1817, Scottish commodore, one time governor of West Florida, was one of the commissioners sent from England to treat
with the American colonies. He was compelled to withdraw from the commission on account of the incident, reported by Reed,
in which he endeavoured to win over the American members by a private arrangement, offered in writing.
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7. GALLOWAY,
Joseph.
The Examination of Joseph Galloway, Esq; late Speaker of the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania, before the House of Commons, in a Committee on the American
Papers, with explanatory notes.
London: printed for
J. Wilkie,
mdcclxxix
. [1779.]
First Edition. 40 leaves, the last a blank; uncut.
Jefferson made a reference to Galloway, in a letter to Samuel Adams Wells, written from Monticello May 12, 1819: “
. . . I will now proceed to your quotation from m(
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Galloway’s statements of what passed in Congress on their declaration of independance in which statement there is not one
word of truth, and where bearing some resemblance to truth, it is an entire perversion of it. I do not charge this on m
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Galloway himself; his desertion having taken place long before these measures, he doubtless recieved his information from
some of the loyal friends whom he left behind him . . .
”
Joseph Galloway, 1730-1803, was born in Maryland, and in 1774 was elected a member of the first Continental Congress. In 1776 he took advantage
of the proclamation of indemnity and served with the British army. On the evacuation of Philadelphia, where he was a magistrate,
in 1778, he left for England, and in 1779 was examiend before the House of Commons.
Trumbull refers in
M’Fingal
(q.v.) to Galloway’s leaving Philadelphia:
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Did you not in as vile and shallow way
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Fright our poor Philadelphia Galloway?
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Your Congress, when the daring ribald
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Belied, berated, and bescribbled:
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What ropes and halters you did send,
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Terriffic emblems of his end,
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Till, lest he’d hang in more than effigy,
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Fled in a fog the trembling refugee.
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Volume 9
Six tracts bound together in one volume, 8vo., half bound, later labels on the back lettered:
Colonial /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 18. / The pamphlets numbered in ink on the titles or first pages.
E187 .C72 vol. 18
1. HARTLEY,
David.
Letters on the American War. Addressed to the Right Worshipful the Mayor and Corporation, to the Worshipful the Wardens and
Corporation of the Trinity-House, and to the worthy burgesses of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull. By David
