8vo. 12 leaves, the last a blank; half-title, no title-page; printer’s device on the last page.
Sabin 77415 (with wrong date, 179-?).
Rebound in blue buckram, numbered 1 on the title-page.
Stephen Sayre, 1736-1818, merchant, banker, and diplomatic agent, was agent in Europe for the purchase of “arms, cloathing and other supplies”
during the Revolutionary war. This Memorial for the recovery of money spent is dated from Washington, 27th January, 1803.
In 1807 an act was passed granting him pay for the time he spent in Berlin as Lee’s secretary.
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1864 Catalogue, page 281, [Connecticut.] Remonstrance of the Baptist Elders at Bristol to the General Assembly. Folded 8
o.
Bristol, 1803. (Pol. Pam., v. 104.)
2.
To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, to be holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May, 1803,
the Remonstrance and Petition of a Convention of Elders and Brethren of the Baptist denomination, assembled at Bristol, on
the first Wednesday of February, 1803 . . .
Without name of printer,
Bristol,
1803.
Broadside coll. 4, No. 19
Folio broadside, printed in three columns, caption title, signed at the end by Rufus Babcock,
Moderator, and David Bolles, Junr.
Clerk; dated at Bristol, the second of February, 1803.
This broadside has been folded to fit into the octavo volume; numbered 2 in ink at the head.
Contains a request for the repeal of all the laws of the State of Connecticut which form the religious establishment thereof.
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1864 Catalogue, page 187, Burk, (John D.) Oration at Petersburg, March 4, 1803, to celebrate the election of Jefferson. 8
o.
(n.p.,) 1803. (Pol. Pam., v. 104.)
3. BURK,
John Daly.
An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of March, 1803, at the Court-House, in Petersburg: to Celebrate the Election of Thomas
Jefferson, and the Triumph of Republicanism. By John D. Burk, Attorney at Law. Printed at the request of the Committee.
[
Petersburg]
T. Field, Printer [
1803].
E331 .B95
8vo. 9 leaves. The dedication to John Shore and Thomas Bolling Robinson dated from Petersburg, 18th March, 1803.
Sabin 9274.
Not in Swem.
Johnston, page 32.
Rebound in blue buckram; numbered 3 on the title-page.
On page 15:
. . . The fourth grand EPOCH rises to my view in the unclouded majesty of the morning: a sage, long practised in virtue, and
whose soul was animated by a larger share of the ætherial fire, was called on to repair the mischiefs, which his predecessor
had occasioned; Thomas Jefferson, the author of the declaration of Independence, the energetic champion of the moral and physical
productions of his country against the precipitate charges of Raynal and Buffon; Thomas Jefferson, whose name associate
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
a boundless range of deep and elegant knowledge, of active benevolence and glowing philanthropy, was chosen to succeed the
eulogist of the British form of government; the pretended defender of the American constitutions . . .
At the end, on page 18:
. . . Let us hail with acclamations this day of our safety,
this day of our union;
and until the going down of the Sun, let us make the air vocal, & the hills, which overlook our town, respond to the soul
exalting sounds of, JEFFERSON AND UNION, JEFFERSON AND LIBERTY, unfading be the principles which triumphed on this day, ETERNAL
be the Republic.
For a biographical note on Burk see no. 464.
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1864 Catalogue, page 1103, Thacher, (Stephen.) Oration at Kennebunk, Me., July 4, 1803. 8
o.
Boston. 1803. (Pol. Pam., v. 104.)
4. THACHER,
Stephen.
An Oration, Pronounced at Kennebunk, District of Maine, on the Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1803. By Stephen Thacher . . .
Boston: Printed by
David Carlisle,
1803.
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