6. [GERARD
de RAYNEVAL,
Joseph Mathias.]
Observations on the Justificative Memorial of the Court of London.
Paris, printed by the royal authority.
Philadelphia: printed by
F. Bailey,
m.dcc.lxxxi
. [1781.]
First Edition of this translation. 4to. 65 leaves in twos.
On the title-page is written: His Excellency The Governor.
Another copy of no. 2132 q.v.
The translation is by Peter Stephen du Ponceau, later concerned in the Batture case, q.v.
The Justificative Memorial
was by Edward Gibbon the historian. A different work with the same title was published by Caron de Beaumarchais, with his
name on the title-page, in 1779.
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J. 315
Colony titles, to wit of Pensvã, N. York, & Vermont. tracts.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 95. no. 234, Colony titles--to wit, of Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont, 8vo.
Six tracts bound in a volume, 8vo., half calf. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
E187 .C72 vol. 19
1.
Report of the Commissioners appointed by the General Assembly of this Colony, to treat with the proprietaries of Pennsylvania,
respecting the boundaries of this Colony and that Province.
Norwich: printed by
Green & Spooner,
1774.
4to. 20 leaves in fours; ends on sig. E
4, page 36, with the catchword “We”, but is perfect according to the bibliographies cited below.
Sabin 15685.
Evans 13214.
Trumbull 1294.
On the title-page is written in ink in an early hand:
Library of Congress.
This and the following three tracts are relative to the Pennsylvania-Connecticut boundary dispute, caused by the support given
by Connecticut in 1774 to the claim of the Susquehannah Company to the northeastern portion of what was then Pennsylvania,
but to which Connecticut had legal claim. See
The Susquehannah Papers, edited by Julian P. Boyd.
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2.
The Susquehannah case. [
Norwich:
Green & Spooner,
1774.]
4to. 13 leaves, the last a blank.
Sabin 93936.
Evans 18971 (under date 1785).
Trumbull 1477.
Cut into at the fore-edges, with damage to the marginalia.
Prepared by Governor Jonathan Trumbull and printed to accompany the above report. See his
Memorial to the General Assembly
. Evans quotes his Memorial as his authority for the date 1785.
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3. [SMITH,
William.]
An Examination of the Connecticut claim to lands in Pennsylvania. With an Appendix, containing extracts and copies taken from
original papers.
Philadelphia: printed by
Joseph Crukshank,
mdcclxxiv
. [1774.]
2 parts in 1, 47 and 16 leaves, separate signatures and pagination, folded map; Postscript at the end of the first part; the
second part for the Appendix.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 84605.
Evans 13629.
Hildeburn 3113.
By William Smith, provost of the College of Philadelphia. Other works by him appear in this catalogue, q.v.
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4. TRUMBULL,
Benjamin.
A Plea, in vindication of the Connecticut title to the contested lands, lying west of the province of New-York, addressed
to the public, by Benjamin Trumbull, A.M.
