at their request. With a Dedication to His Excellency Joseph Bloomfield, Governor of the State of New-Jersey. By the Rev.
M. L. Weems, Lodge No. 50. Dumfries, Virginia. Price
37½ cents.
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by
William W. Woodward, n.d. [
1802] [Copy-Right Secured.]
First Edition. 8vo. 28 leaves collating in fours. The dedication dated from Trenton, January, 1802.
Presentation copy from the author, who sent it to Jefferson with a letter dated only Dumfries, Nov. 22 [Nov. 22, 1804]: “I beg your acceptance of the inclosure “The True Patriot”--‘Tis [punct.
sic--
Ed.] among the first of my little callow brood, and, throughout, bears too evident marks of the pinfeather--but I think I feel
the growing strength of my quill, and hope e’er long to send you something better worth perusal . . .”
Jefferson acknowledged it from Washington on December 13: “
I thank you for the pamphlet you were so kind as to send me which I have read with great satisfaction . . .”
For a note on the author see no. 507.
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Allen’s funeral sermon on m
(
~r
)s White. Pittsfield.
ALLEN,
Thomas.
Benefits of Affliction. A Funeral Sermon: occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth White, Consort of Mr. William P. White;
who departed this life in London, on Friday the 2d. day of Feb. 1798, and delivered at Pittsfield, the place of her nativity
April 22d . . . By Thomas Allen, A.M. Pastor of the Church in Pittsfield . . . The
second edition.
Pittsfield: Printed by
Holly & Smith,
1799.
8vo. 14 leaves without signature, engraved portrait frontispiece by S. Hill.
Evans 35095.
Sprague I, page 610.
Thomas Allen, 1743-1810, Trinitarian Congregationalist Minister. The first edition of this sermon on the death of his daughter was printed
in Pittsfield in 1798. Allen wrote a long letter to Jefferson on the commencement of his second term as President.
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Furman’s Sermon on the 4
th. July. 02. Charleston.
FURMAN,
Richard.
America’s Deliverance and Duty. A Sermon. Preached at the Baptist Church in Charleston, South-Carolina, on the Fourth day
of July, 1802, before the State Society of the Cincinnati, the American Revolution Society; and the Congregation which usually
attends divine service in the said Church. By Richard Furman, D. D. Pastor of the Baptist Church, in Charleston, and a member of the Revolution Society. Published at the joint request
of the two societies . . .
Charleston: Printed by
W. P. Young,
1802.
First Edition. 8vo. 14 leaves including the half-title. A few small corrections in ink.
Sabin 26227.
Sprague VI, 161.
Richard Furman, 1755-1825, Baptist minister, was born in New York but brought up in South Carolina, where he eventually became first president
of the Baptist State Convention. In politics he was a Federalist.
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