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Title
Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or Political Essays published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies / the former by John Adams late president of the United States; the latter by Jonathan Sewall, then King's Attorney General of the province of Massachusetts Bay. ; To which are added a number of letters, lately written by President Adams, to the Honourable William Tudor; some of which were never before published.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1086
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc9880w181q
Publisher
Boston : Hews and Goss 1819.
Language
English
Date Created
1819
Extent
2], vii, [2], 10-312 pages ; 8⁰.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959; 2021.
References
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 46923
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Preface signed: John Adams. Quincy, January 1, 1819.
Over the signature, Novanglus, a series of articles was published by Adams in the Boston gazette between January and April, 1775, in answer to certain articles in the Tory interest which appeared in the Massachusetts gazette and Boston post-boy over the signature of Massachusettensis. Both series were afterwards republished at different times in separate form, the Novanglus letters under the title "History of the dispute with America, from its origin in 1754." Until after the publication of this 1819 edition it was supposed by Adams that the Massachusettensis papers were the work of Jonathan Sewall, but it is now well established that they were written by Daniel Leonard.References:
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy inscribed on title page 'alias Judge D. Leonard, now of the Island of Bermuda.'

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