| Author | Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.
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| Title | Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1774: wherein their errors are exhibited, their reasonings confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption measures, are laid open to the plainest understandings; and the only means pointed out for preserving and securing our present happy constitution: in a letter to the farmers, and other inhabitants of North America in general, and to those of the province of New-York in particular. By a farmer ...
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| Published | [New York] Printed in the year 1774.
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| Description | 24 p. 20 cm.
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| General Note | Signatures: A-C⁴.
Printed by James Rivington.
Dated and signed, on p. 23: November 16, 1774. A. W. Farmer.
"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. H. Vance. 1930, p. 19.
Sometimes attributed to Seabury and Wilkins jointly.
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| Subjects | Imprints, Early -- American -- To 1820.
New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States. Continental Congress (1774)
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| LC Card Number | 08-31577 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 211 S439 Vault
mq153507: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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