Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Congress canvassed: or, An examination into the conduct of the delegates, at their grand convention, held in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 1774. Addressed, to the merchants of New-York. By A. W. Farmer. Author of Free thoughts, &c. ...
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1752
E211 .S43
EXKA Americana 1774 Seabury
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6969z9975
Publisher
[New York] Printed [by James Rivington?]in the year M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]
Language
English
Date Created
1774
Extent
27, [1] p. 21 cm. (8vo).
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 ExKa copy has bookplate of Grenville Kane.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 3 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
References
ESTC W5299
Adams, T.R. Amer. pamphlets, 135a
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Dated at end: November 28, 1774. Postscript dated Dec. 16, 1774.
"That ... Seabury was the author of the ... [three] pamphlets signed A.W. Farmer, there is no longer any doubt; but through an error of judgment ... their authorship has been attributed to some of his contemporaries, notably to Isaac Wilkins."--Seabury, Samuel. Letters of a Westchester farmer ... ed. ... by C.W. Vance. 1930, p.19.
Attributed to Seabury by T.R. Adams. Sometimes attributed to Isaac Wilkins.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 3 Lapidus copy: Disbound. c
Princeton copy 1 ExKa copy in textured red wrappers, stabbed and stitched.

Discovery Information

Subject
United States Continental Congress
United States—Politics and government—1775-1783
New York (State)—Politics and government—1775-1783

Physical Characteristics

File Count
30

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/702f8dee-11b8-46b7-bcbd-af14762eba7f/manifest