Text New-York, January 6, 1769. : Advertisement, for summoning the freeholders and freemen, of the city and county of New-York, to nominate and elect four representatives to serve in the next General-Assembly. Signed: John Roberts, sheriff. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. New-York Historical copy inscribed at foot: "Printed by John Holt". View Item
Text Zur Nach Right. : Weilen gegen mich ist aus gestreued worden, zu meinem Mach [sic] Theil gegen den nechsten Wahl oder Stimm Dag ... Signed: Johann Morin Scott. January den 11de 1769. View Item
Text An anecdote of a certain candidate, for the ensuing election. Concerning the election of James Jauncey to the New York General Assembly. Signed: Honestus. Imprint supplied by Evans. New-York Historical copy inscribed: "Printed by John Holt Jan. 1769". View Item
Text City of New-York, ss. January 6th, 1769. : Whereas at a meeting of the freeholders and freemen, of this city, on Wednesday evening last, at the Exchange-Room ... Attesting that Philip Livingston declined to serve in the next Assembly. Signed: George Harison [and four others]. Sworn before me this 6th day of January, 1769. George Brewerton, justice of the peace. View Item
Text New-York, January 4, 1769. To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York. : The appointment of two members only, by the various denominations of dissenters, who form a majority of the electors of this city and county, having been offer Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. New-York Historical copy inscribed: "Printed by John Holt". View Item
Text To the freeholders and freemen of the city and county of New-York. : Gentlemen, It was doubtless surprising to the inhabitants of the city, to find it asserted in an advertisement, signed James De Lancey, Jacob Walton, and James Jauncey ... that Philip Li Answering De Lancey's advertisement; cf. Evans 11234. Signed and dated: Philip Livingston, Theodorus Van Wyck, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, John Morin Scott. New-York, January 6, 1769. Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed area measures 16.0 x 19.5 cm. New-York Historical copy inscribed: "Printed by John Holt". View Item
Image Text 2 Items A whip for the American Whig. / By Timothy Tickle, Esqr. (No. LXIII.) ... Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription. "To Timothy Tickle, Esq. Sir, By inserting the following strictures on no. LVI, of the American Whig, in one of your papers, you will oblige, A lover of truth and decency." Commenting on the American Whig columns written by William Livingston for the New York Gazette, concerning the Society for the Progagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the establishment of an American episcopate, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler's "Appeal to the public, in behalf of the Church of England in America". View Item
Text Subscriptions of the Literary Society, commencing November the 9th, 1766, and to continue until November 9th, 1771. Includes "First subscription in 1767", with "Disbursements by Dr. Clossy", and "Second subscription, in 1769". Text in four columns. View Item
Text A pill for the committees of non-importation. : Gentlemen, if you really never entertained a single idea of doing any thing more than endeavouring to make the public believe, that you were willing to sacrifice your private interests to the good of society View Item
Text A pill for the committees of non-importation. : Gentlemen, if you really never entertained a single idea of doing any thing more than endeavouring to make the public believe, that you were willing to sacrifice your private interests to the good of society View Item
Image Text 2 Items A pill for the committees of non-importation. : Gentlemen, if you really never entertained a single idea of doing any thing more than endeavouring to make the public believe, that you were willing to sacrifice your private interests to the good of society Accusing the American merchants of violating the non-importation agreements while pretending to observe them. Evans incorrectly gives title as: A pill for the committee of non-importation. Signed on p. 2: Paracelsus. Sunday, October 1, 1769. Followed by: A draught to wash the pill down. Signed: Paracelsus. Friday, October 13th, 1769. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. New-York Historical copy has manuscript correction in the text; manuscript note at foot of p. 2: "Printed by John Holt". View Item
Text To the freeholders and freemen, of the city of New-York. : Gentlemen, We beg leave to return you our most hearty thanks, for the general approbation you have shewn of our past conduct, by nominating your late members as candidates for the ensuing election Signed: We are with the greatest respect, gentlemen, your most obedient, and obliged humble servants, James De Lancey, Jacob Walton, James Jauncey. Followed by: Gentlemen, Your votes and interest are therefore requested at the ensuing election for John Cruger, James De Lancey, Jacob Walton, James Jauncey. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. Date of publication supplied by Evans. New-York Historical copy has manuscript note: "Printed by John Holt June 1769". View Item
Text New-York, July 7, 1769. : At this alarming crisis when we are threatened with a deprivation of those invaluable rights, which our ancestors purchased with their blood ... A number of the inhabitants of this city, have determined to drop all party distinct "N.B. The United Sons of Liberty, are to hold a meeting on Monday evening next precisely at seven o'clock, at the house of Mr. De La Montagne. and do hereby publicly invite every lover of constitutional freedom, to meet with them at the above-mentioned time and place." New-York Historical copy: penciled corrections within text. View Item
Text Illustrissimo ac sublimi virtute, optimaque eruditione, ornatissimo viro Francisco Bernardo ... : theses hasce ... Collegio-Harvardino ... Habita in comitiis academicis, Cantabrigiæ, Nov-Anglorum, decimo-tertio sextilis, anno MDCCLXVIII. Text in three columns; printed area measures 54.6 x 37.8 cm. View Item
Text Boston, September 14, 1768. : Gentlemen, You are already too well acquainted with the melancholly [sic] and very alarming circumstances to which this province, as well as America in general, is now reduced. …, verso View Item
Text Boston, September 14, 1768. : Gentlemen, You are already too well acquainted with the melancholly [sic] and very alarming circumstances to which this province, as well as America in general, is now reduced. …, recto View Item
Image Text 2 Items Boston, September 14, 1768. : Gentlemen, You are already too well acquainted with the melancholly [sic] and very alarming circumstances to which this province, as well as America in general, is now reduced. ... Circular letter from the selectmen of Boston transmitting to the various towns in Massachusetts the resolves of the town meeting held on September 12, and requesting that representatives be sent to a convention at Boston on September 22, to consider what measures should be adopted to obtain redress of grievances against Great Britain. Cf. Bristol B2850. The New-York Historical Society copy is signed in a single hand with the names of Joseph Jackson, John Ruddock, John Rowe, John Hancock, and Samuel Pemberton, selectmen of Boston. New-York Historical copy inscribed at head: A. Lamb. View Item
Text From Parker's New-York gazette, Feb. 15, 1768. Seventeen questions, "humbly offered to the serious consideration of every candid and judicious freeholder and freeman in this city." Favoring the election of lawyers to the New York Assembly. Text in two columns; printed area measures 23.9 x 14.8 cm. View Item
Text The life, and dying speech of Arthur, a Negro man; : who was executed at Worcester, October 20th 1768. For a rape committed on the body of one Deborah Metcalfe. Signed: Arthur. Worcester goal, Oct. 18, 1768. Presumably printed by John Kneeland and Seth Adams, who were located in Milk-Street from 1765 to 1772. Text in four columns; printed area measures 32.3 x 35.1 cm. New-York Historical copy damaged along creases, with slight loss of text. View Item
Text New-York, May 12, 1768. Arvertisement [sic]. : To be sold by the subscriber, living in New York ... a tract of land in the county of Dutchess, and province of New-York, called Hyde Park, or Paulin's Purchase, bounded to the northward by Staatsburgh; to th Signed: John Bard. View Item
Text To the freemen and freeholders of the city and county of New-Yok [sic]. : The author of the 17 reasons for choosing lawyers assemblymen, inserted in last Monday's New-York gazette, begs that each man will give them a serious consideration ... : John A Nok Opposing the election of lawyers to the New York Assembly in the election of March 7, 1768. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in three columns. Printed area measures 29.1 x 22.4 cm. View Item
Text The following lines were occasioned by the death of Miss Mary Hedges, : who departed this life February 17th, 1768, in the 19th year of her age. Verse of ninety-four lines; first line: Awake my muse, and strike the mournful lyre. Followed by: The Epitaph upon her grave-stone. Another edition spells "epitaph" with a lower case "e" and has variant setting of type and relief cut. Includes solid rectangular black bar at head of sheet, 3.5 x 10.4 cm., showing prominent wood grain. Dated: East-Hampton, ex meo musæo, March 1st, 1768. View Item
Text To the readers of the South-Carolina & American general gazette. January 1, 1768. Carrier's verse; signed: Nathan-B. Child. Followed by a second anonymous verse. Presumably printed late in 1767 by Robert Wells, printer of the South-Carolina and American general gazette, for distribution on or about New Year's Day. Printed area measures 28.4 x 15.1 cm. Royal arms at head of text; ornamental border. View Item
Text James Lockwood, hath just imported from London, a great variety of books and stationary [sic], which he will sell at his store in New-Haven, either wholesale or retail, as cheap as they are sold in Boston or New-York, viz., verso View Item
Text James Lockwood, hath just imported from London, a great variety of books and stationary [sic], which he will sell at his store in New-Haven, either wholesale or retail, as cheap as they are sold in Boston or New-York, viz., recto View Item
Image Text 2 Items James Lockwood, hath just imported from London, a great variety of books and stationary [sic], which he will sell at his store in New-Haven, either wholesale or retail, as cheap as they are sold in Boston or New-York, viz. The bookseller James Lockwood was active in New Haven from 1768 to about 1775. Cf. Thomas, I. History of Printing in America, 2nd ed. (1874), II, 234. Text in four columns, separated by single rules. New-York Historical copy: fabric lining, obscuring inscription on verso. View Item