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Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence

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Author
Sanderson, John,
Date of Publication
1827
Call Number
923.2 S216
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Responsibility
by John Sanderson.
Author
Sanderson, John,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
R. W. Pomeroy,
Date of Publication
1827
Physical Description
9 v. ports., facsims. 22 1/2 cm.
Notes
Engraved t.-p.
Vols. 1-4 dated 1823; v. 5-6, 1824; v. 7-9, 1827.
John Sanderson's name appears as above on t.-p. of v. 1-4.
Vols. 1-2 edited by John Sanderson, v. 3-6 by Robert Wain, jr. v. 7-9 are without editor's name, but were edited by Henry D. Gilpin, according to statement in Mrs. Eliza Gilpin's Memorial of Henry D. Gilpin, Phildelphia, 1860, p. 194. Volumes numbered on the half-titles.
A list of authors of the biographies (originally published in the New York times) may be found in Proc. of Mass. hist. soc., 1876-1877 [v. 15] p. 393.
Contents
John Hancock (v.1) ; Benjamin Franklin, George Wythe, Francis Hopkinson, Robert Treat Paine (v.2) ; Edward Rutledge, Lyman Hall, Oliver Wolcott, Richard Stockton, Button Gwinnett, Josiah Bartlett, Philip Livingston, Roger Sherman (v.3) ; Thomas Heyward, George Read, William Williams, Samuel Huntington, William Floyd, George Walton, George Clymer, Benjamin Rush (v.4) ; Thomas Lynch, Jr., Matthew Thornton, William Whipple, John Witherspoon, Robert Morris (v.5) ; Arthur Middleton, Abraham Clark, Francis Lewis, John Penn. James Wilson, Carter Braxton, John Morton, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas McKean (v.6) ; Thomas Jefferson, William Hooper, James Smith, Charles Carroll, Thomas Nelson Jr., Joseph Hewes (v.7) ; Elbridge Gerry, Cesar Rodney, Benjamin Harrison, William Paca, George Ross, John Adams (v.8) ; Richard Henry Lee, George Taylor, John Hart, Lewis Morris, Thomas Stone, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Samuel Chase, William Ellery, Samuel Adams (v.9).
Subjects
United States. - Signers.
Additional Author
Waln, Robert,
Gilpin, Henry D.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.2 S216
Websites
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The political writings of Thomas Paine : secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the author's life

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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Date of Publication
1824.
Call Number
973.402 P147
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Author
Paine, Thomas,
Place of Publication
Charlestown (Ms.)
Publisher
G. Davidson,
Date of Publication
1824.
Physical Description
2 v. ; 22 cm.
Notes
On spine: Paine's works.
"In two volumes."
Contents
Volume I chapters: Sketch of the Life of Thomas Paine // Common Sense // Epistle to the Quakers // "The Crisis" numbers 1 through 16 // Public Good. On The Claim of Virginia to the Western Territory // Letter to the abbe Raynal // Dissertations on government , the affairs of the bank , and paper money // Miscellaneous
Volume II chapters: Prospects of the Rubicon // Rights of man Part 1. Being an answer to Mr Burke 's attack on the French Revolution // Rights of Man Part 2. Combining principles and practice // Letter to theauthors of The Republican // Letter to the abbe Sieyes // Address to the Addressers // Letters to Lord Onslow // Dissertation on First Principles of government // Speech delivered to the French National Convention // Letter to Mr Secretary Dundas // The Decline and Fall of the English system of Finance // Letter to the People of France // Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet as delivered to the national convention // Agrarian justice, opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly.
Subjects
Paine, Thomas, - 1737-1809.
Political science
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.402 P147
Websites
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