Woodward on the gov
(
~m
)t of Columbia.
10. WOODWARD,
Augustus Brevoort.
Considerations on the Government of the Territory of Columbia. By Augustus B. Woodward. Number VIII. Washington: Printed for the author.
January.
m.dccc.iii
. [1803.]
8vo. 13 leaves, dated at the end from Washington, January 31, 1803. Erratum at foot of last page.
Sabin 105151.
Bryan, page 209.
For the other pamphlets in this series by Woodward [Epaminondas] see the Index.
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[Gov
r.
] Monroe’s Letter to the Virginia assembly.
11. [MONROE,
James.]
The Governor’s Letter, Of the 6th of December, 1802, to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, of Virginia. [
Richmond: Printed by
Meriwether Jones, printer to the public,
1802.]
Sm. 8vo. 12 leaves; signed at the end: James Monroe.
Not in Sabin.
Swem 8073 (copy not seen).
Cronin and Wise, no. 13.
Governor Monroe’s annual message.
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Report of Committee on the same.
12.
A Report Of the Committee appointed to examine into the Executive Expenditures. Also the Governor’s Letter Of the 28th January,
to the Speaker of the House of Delegates, respecting said Expenditures, and the Resolutions of the House on the same.
[
Richmond: Printed by
Meriwether Jones,
February 1, 1802.]
Sm. 8vo. 8 leaves.
Swem 8050 (no copy seen.).
Not in Cronin and Wise.
Five hundred copies were printed of this Report.
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Worthington’s Communication to the N. Western territory.
13. WORTHINGTON,
Thomas.
Communication, to Those Citizens of the North-Western Territory, opposed to an Alteration of the Boundaries of the States,
as established by Congress, and who are Favourable to the Formation of a Constitution and State Government within the Eastern
State, as Originally Established. By Thomas Worthington.
Chillicothe: Printed by
N. Willis,
1802.
8vo. 7 leaves only (should be 8), lacks the last leaf. Worthington’s Communication is dated from Chillicothe, July 5, 1802, and is followed by
An Act To enable the people of the Eastern Division of the Territory Northwest of the river Ohio, to form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for
other purposes
.
Sabin 105504.
Thomson 1264.
American Imprints Inventory 29.
Sent to Jefferson by Worthington, who wrote from Washington on December 22, 1802: “I have the honour to enclose to you a copy of the constitution of the state of Ohio together with a communication from the
convention of that state . . .”
Thomas Worthington, 1773-1827, Governor of Ohio, was one of the leaders of the “Chillicothe Junto” which accomplished the triumph of Jeffersonism
in Ohio and the admission of that state to the Union. Among other activities he was responsible for founding the State Library
of Ohio.
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