Text To D----r R-g--s. : Reverend Sir, Altho' it generally belongs to your profession to declaim on the vices and foibles of mankind, there are, notwithstanding, many instances wherein it is necessary for even a layman to lend his aid in this useful work ... Concerning the controversy over the establishment of an episcopacy in America; and charging John Rodgers, a Presbyterian minister in New York City, with defaming members of the Church of England, particularly those in Newark, N.J. Signed: A farmer. Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed area measures 26.2 x 16.1 cm. New-York Historical copy inscribed at foot: Printed by John Holt April 1772. View Item
Text The Following piece, which was desired to be inserted in the New-York journal of this day, December 24, 1772, but omitted for want of room, will be inserted next week. : To the printer of the New York journal. Urging that Christmas be observed in a temperate and Christian fashion. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. Holt printed the New-York journal in 1772. View Item
Text (Number III.) A letter to the majority of the General Assembly of Liliput. : Gentlemen, though a free people may for a while submit to the injustice of their rulers ... Signed: A freeholder of Liliput. Imprint supplied by Evans. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription. New-York Historical copy inscribed at foot: Printed by John Holt Feb 1772. View Item
Text (Number II.) A letter to the majority of the General Assembly of Liliput. : Gentlemen, you may possibly expect that the subject of my last should be continued in this letter. ... Criticizes the General Assembly of New York for recent decisions regarding residency requirements for voters and office holders. Signed: A freeholder of Liliput. Imprint supplied by Evans. Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription. View Item
Image Text 2 Items John Amiel, at his store in Smith-Street ... List of imported teas, spices, condiments, dried fruits, wines, assorted foodstuffs, etc. New York City merchant and American Loyalist John Amiel established his firm in New York ca. 1700 and left the city at the time of the British evacuation in 1783. List printed in two colums divided by double rule within ornamental border. At foot of text: Most of the above articles are just imported and to be sold at the cheapest rate[...]. New-York Historical copy inscribed on verso in a contemporary hand: Continued to [...?] 1772; imperfect: torn, with some loss of text and ornamental border. View Item
Text To the people called freeholders and freemen, of the "Dirty Corporation" of the city of New-York. : Be it made known to you, that at 10 clock to-morrow morning, in the assembly chamber, I will prove ... that the petition of 400 inhabitants, of the county Signed: Given under my hand, in Council, with my faithful allies aforesaid, this 21st day of February, being Monday, and in the sixth year of my dominion. John prince of Orange. Imprint supplied by Evans. View Item
Image Text 2 Items A Letter from a gentleman in New-York to his friend in the country. Condemns the petition to force the inhabitants of Yonkers to support an Episcopal church. Imprint supplied by Evans. View Item
Text To the General Assembly. : Gentlemen, As I am not influenced by party zeal, nor guided by personal interest, I should have viewed your actions with contempt or indifference …, verso View Item
Text To the General Assembly. : Gentlemen, As I am not influenced by party zeal, nor guided by personal interest, I should have viewed your actions with contempt or indifference …, recto View Item
Image Text 2 Items To the General Assembly. : Gentlemen, As I am not influenced by party zeal, nor guided by personal interest, I should have viewed your actions with contempt or indifference ... Renewing charges of dishonesty as levelled against New York Assemblyman John De Noyelles in a paper entitled "To the public," signed "Brutus" and dated Jan. 28, 1772 (Evans 12336), and denouncing the General Assembly's inquiry into the matter in its Votes and proceedings, Jan. 7-Mar. 24, 1772 (Evans 12484). Signed: A farmer, (and once a grand juror) of Orange County. Orange-County, March 14, 1772. Place of publication supplied by Evans. Text in two columns. View Item
Text By the Honorable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire; governor and commander in chief of the English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America. A proclamation. : Whereas I have received His Majesty's royal instruction ... where the royal family is appointe Signed: Jonathan Trumbull. God save the King. Bristol suggests New London as the place of publication, but this is not listed in H.A. Johnson's Checklist of New London, Connecticut, imprints. View Item
Text A letter to the majority of the General Assembly of Liliput. : Before you, gentlemen, were called to a share in the legislation, the House of Assembly was considered as the grand paladium of the peoples liberty ... Criticizing the New York General Assembly. Signed: A freeholder of Liliput. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text printed in two columns. New-York Historical copy inscribed at foot: Printed by John Holt, Jan. 1772. View Item
Text A list of the fortunate tickets in Biles-Island Lottery. : N.B. The numbers that have nothing against them are £.2 prizes. List of winning numbers with prizes printed in ten columns. Appears to correspond with published Biles-Island Lottery scheme of 1771. New-York Historical copy torn with some loss of text; mounted on paper backing. View Item
Text A New ballad, upon a new occasion. : To the tune of, A Cobler there was, &c. Fit to be sung in the streets. Concerning the excise law. Lyrics in thirteen stanzas, numbered I.-XIII.; first line: Attend ye good people, attend to my song. Imprint supplied by Bristol. Printed in two columns. Cut below caption title shows two male figures in an outdoor setting, with the figure on the left addressing the other with the words, "Hold up your hand." New-York Historical copy torn, with slight loss to text. View Item
Text To the freeholders and freemen of the city and colony [of New-York] and to all the friends of liberty in the British Empire. : Gentlemen, if the liberty of the press is not a mere chimera, a sound without an idea, the subject is intitled to it for his vin Concerning his prosecution as the author of the pamphlet "To the betrayed inhabitants of the city and county of New-York." Printed in four columns. Signed: Alexr. M'Dougall. New goal, Jan. 26 1771. New-York Historical copy imperfect: first and fourth columns badly torn with loss of text. View Item
Text By His Excellency William Tryon, Esq; Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the province of New-York, and the territories depending thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same. To all to whom these presents shall come or may c A blank form. License to trade with Native Americans in New York State. Mortised initial "W" with cherubs on either side and a crown above. View Item
Text An elegy, on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, : tutor of Yale College, who was drowned in his passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771, verso View Item
Text An elegy, on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, : tutor of Yale College, who was drowned in his passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771, recto View Item
Image Text 2 Items An elegy, on the death of Mr. Buckingham St. John, : tutor of Yale College, who was drowned in his passage from New-Haven to Norwalk, May the 5th, 1771. Verse of 108 lines printed in two columns divided by type ornament rule; first line: The world now yields to night's returning sway. Included in: Poetical works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820, v. II, p. 187-192. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in two columns. New-York Historical copy inscribed on verso: Mr. Trumbull Esq. on Mr. B. St. John gift of Col. Stephen St. John May 19th 1783. View Item
Text Massachusets-Bay [sic]. By the governor. A proclamation for a publick thanksgiving. : ... Thursday the twenty-first day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber in Boston, the twenty-third day of October, 1771 ... Signed: By His Excellency's command, T. Hutchinson. Tho's Flucker, secr'y. Printed area measures 38.6 x 19.2 cm. View Item
Text To the public. New-York, August 13, 1771. : As Doctor Chandler, and those of his brethren who have publickly espoused the romantic and pernicious project of importing a bishop into America ... Includes protests against the ordination of an Episcopal bishop in America from the Virginia gazette, and an extract from the journal of the House of Burgesses. Text in three columns. View Item
Text To the freeholders, and freemen, of the city and county of New-York. : Gentlemen, The important advantages arising from electing representatives by ballot, are so evident, that it is matter of concern, that we find so salutary a measure openly opposed. .. Four reasons for supporting elections by ballot. Dated: New-York, January 4, 1770. Imprint supplied by Evans. Printed area measures 17.2 x 14.5 cm. View Item
Text To the independent freeholders and freemen, of this city and county. : It having been industriously propagated, that numbers of the voters of this city and county, have been long intimidated at elections ... Calling a meeting to discuss voting by secret ballot. Signed: Abel Hardenbrook, [and eleven others]. New-York, Jan. 4, 1770. View Item
Text A Funeral elegy, on the revd. and renowned George Whitefield, chaplain to the Right Honorable the Countess of Huntingdon, &c. : Who departed this life at Newbury-Port, on Sabbath morning the 30th day [o]f September, 1770. Æt. 56. Verse of 118 lines; first lines: Why throbs my panting heart? and whence can flow these plaintive tho'ts and why this sudden woe? Printed in two columns, without the mourning border found in other editions. View Item
Text To the public. : Whoever seriously considers the impoverished state of this city; especially of many of the poor inhabitants of it, must be greatly surprised at the conduct of such of them as employ the soldiers ... Opposing the Billeting Act and accusing British soldiers of attempting to destroy the Liberty-Pole. Signed: New-York, January 15th, 1770. Brutus. View Item
Text To the Sons of Liberty in this city. : Gentlemen, It's well known, that it has been the custom of all nations to erect monuments to perpetuate the remembrance of grand events. ... Invitation to attend the erection of a liberty pole in place of the one which had been erected at the time of the Stamp Act and since destroyed. Signed and dated: By order of the committee. New-York, February 3, 1770. Cf. Stokes, I.N.P. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, New York, 1919-1928, v. 4, p. 805. View Item