Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
An address from the General Court, to the people of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Call Number
N-000607
Lapidus 5.679
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9019sc138
Publisher
Boston : Printed by Adams and Nourse ..., 1786.
Language
English
Date Created
1786
Extent
40, [2] p. ; 22 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary signature of Joseph Hubbard on t.p.
Princeton copy 1 Inscribed on title page 'This book belongs to William Walker.'
Source Acquisition
Ex copy Gift of Sidney Lapidus, Class of 1959, in honor of Robert A. Gross, on the occasion of the conference "Fighting Words: Polemical Literature in the Age of Democratic Revolutions."
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
Evans 19786
ESTC W36754
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Concerning state finances, the public debt, and the unrest leading to Shays’ Rebellion.
Endorsed by the state treasurer, Oct. 27, 1786; ordered to be printed Nov. 14.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁴ chi1.
Princeton copy 1 Dealer's description laid in.

Discovery Information

Subject
Finance—Massachusetts—Early works to 1800
Massachusetts—Politics and government—Early works to 1800
Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
45

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/05f21a89-7eb9-4aff-aeab-75c0460d4b33/manifest