Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The American alarm, or The Bostonian plea, for the rights, and liberties, of the people. Humbly addressed to the King and Council; and to the constitutional sons of liberty, in America. By the British Bostonian.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1712
E211 .A42
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9k41zq70d
Publisher
Boston, Printed by D. Kneeland, and N. Davis, in Queen-street, and sold M,DCC,LXXIII.
Language
English
Date Created
1773
Extent
35, 8, 9, 16 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed in pencil on back pastedown 'G. H. Moore sale, Bangs, $5.50' (Cf. Catalogue of the library of the late George H. Moore, LL.D. ... Part II (New York: Bangs, 1894), lot 1246.)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W11546
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
And address to the gentlemen of the provinces of America.--To the King's Most Excellent Majesty.--To His Excellency the governor of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay.--To the honourable the People's council, and House of representatives,, of the province of the Massachusetts-Bay.
Notes
Attributed to Isaac Skillman, pastor of the 2d Baptist church, 1773-87 by Evans; Attributed to John Allen in: Bumstead, John M. "New England’s Tom Paine: John Allen and the spirit of liberty" William and Mary Quarterly 21 (1964): [561]-570.
Dedicated to the Earl of Dartmouth.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Late 19th century three quarter morocco; marbled boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
United States—Politics and government—1775-1783
Massachusetts—Politics and government—1775-1783

Physical Characteristics

File Count
81

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4e7ecd3e-378d-48df-8bb8-187dd0015b54/manifest