Image Collection 2 Items John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 John Bowne (1627-1695), Quaker of Flushing, Long Island. Bowne's journal contains entries of births, marriages, and deaths in the family; a few business and personal accounts; mentions of several Quakers both in Britain and the American colonies; accounts of his voyages to and from England; his arrest and imprisonment in 1662 for holding Quaker meetings in his home; his trial before Peter Stuyvesant and deportation; and his appeal to the officials of West India Company in Amsterdam for freedom of religion. View Collection
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 114. January 28, 1674 [i.e. 1675] petition of Elizabeth Townsend, widow of John Townsend (died 1668), to Governor Edmund Andros (continued). View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 113. January 28, 1674 [i.e. 1675] petition of Elizabeth Townsend, widow of John Townsend (died 1668), to Governor Edmund Andros noting that her husband had possessed about 8 acres near the Collect Pond in Manhattan that he had improved and built upon but had abandoned it "in the time of great calamity" (probably Kieft's War, instigated against the Lenape Indians in 1643 by the Dutch governor Willem Kieft), and seeking Andros's indulgence in allowing her to make her case for the property as there were no deeds documenting Townsend's ownership; recorded January 28, 1674 [i.e. 1675]. View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 102. Legal briefs from an October 21, 1676 lawsuit between John Bowne, John Tilton, and Samuel Spicer, plaintiffs, and William Luker, defendant (continued). View Item
Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 101. Legal briefs from an October 21, 1676 lawsuit between John Bowne, John Tilton, and Samuel Spicer, plaintiffs, and William Luker, defendant; the plaintiffs charge that Luker abandoned his blind and "greatly distracted" wife to their care and expense and ask the court to order him to provide for his wife's care; in response, Luker charges that Bowne hired him at 3 shillings/day and now owes Luker £3 and 3 shillings. View Item
Image Text 98 Items John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 [photostat] John Bowne (1627-1695), Quaker of Flushing, Long Island. Positive photostat of Bowne's journal. The journal contains entries of births, marriages, and deaths in the family; a few business and personal accounts; mentions of several Quakers both in Britain and the American colonies; accounts of his voyages to and from England; his arrest and imprisonment in 1662 for holding Quaker meetings in his home; his trial before Peter Stuyvesant and deportation; and his appeal to the officials of West India Company in Amsterdam for freedom of religion. View Item
Text Religious reflections, particularly on the late dreadful fire of the governor's house in Fort George. Verse in sixty numbered stanzas; first line: Oh where so quick, my soul. The fire occurred on December 29, 1773. The New-York Historical Society copy is inscribed: "Printed by John Holt. June 1774". John Holt was printing in New York in 1774. Text in four columns. View Item
Text To the inhabitants of New-York. : My dear friends and fellow citizens, At a time when slavery is clanking her infernal chains, and tyranny stands ready with goads and whips ... your country has been basely robbed (by the officers of the customs) of a cons Recommending that the citizens assemble to demand the return of the arms. Signed: Plain English. Imprint supplied by Evans. View Item
Text To the worthy inhabitants of the city and county of New-York. : Fellow countrymen, Your Committee of Fifty-one having laid before you their proceedings on Thursday evening, I should not have troubled you at this time, had not eleven of the committee made In defense of the committee's action. Signed: One of the committee. New-York, July 9, 1774. View Item
Text Remarks upon the resolves of the new committee. Concerning the resolves of the Committee of Correspondence of the city of New York. Signed: New-York, July 22, 1774. Democritus. Attributed to Hugh Henry Brackenridge by the New York Public Library. New-York Historical copy damaged at left margin, with slight loss of text. View Item
Text To the very respectable and humane citizens of New-York. : And he answered and said unto them, let him that is without sin throw the first stone. Fellow-citizens ... Anonymous. Signed: Benevolus. Calling for mercy in the unspecified case of two unidentified offenders. Dating based on internal evidence. Title from caption title and opening lines of text. View Item
Text New-York, November 5, 1773. To the friends of liberty and commerce, : Gentlemen, It must be strongly marked on your minds, that the end of the last non-importation agreement, was to obtain a repeal of the tyrannical act of Parliament, that imposed a duty Signed: Cassius. View Item
Text Supplement extraordinary. June 10, 1773. : On Friday last the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, waited on His Excellency General Gage, with the following address. To His Excellency the Honorable Thomas Gage, general and commander in chi View Item
Text Supplement extraordinary. June 10, 1773. : On Friday last the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, waited on His Excellency General Gage, with the following address. To His Excellency the Honorable Thomas Gage, general and commander in chi View Item
Image Text 2 Items Supplement extraordinary. June 10, 1773. : On Friday last the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, waited on His Excellency General Gage, with the following address. To His Excellency the Honorable Thomas Gage, general and commander in chi Containing letters addressed to Thomas Gage on his departure for England, and to Frederick Haldimand on his promotion to the command of the British forces in America. Text in four columns. 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
Text New-York, May 31st, 1770. Advertisement. : Whereas a meeting of the inhabitants was called yesterday, without the knowledge of the Committee appointed to inspect into the importation of goods ... The Committee of Inspection calls for a meeting to choose another committee. New-York Historical copy from the Donald F. Clark collection. View Item
Text A Card, number 1. : A member of the Church of England, and a Son of Liberty, presents his compliments to those gentlemen, who are for an immediate and untimely importation of goods from Great-Britain ... Dated: New York, June 16, 1770. Followed by: A Card, number 2. A member of the Church of England, and a Son of Liberty, presents his compliments once more, to those gentlemen ... and ... begs the liberty, to offer them some other hints ... New-York, June 20, 1770. New-York Historical copy torn, with slight loss of text; from the Donald F. Clark collection. View Item
Text The Subscribers to the non-importation agreement, are requested to meet at Bolton's Long-Room to-morrow, precisely at six o'clock ... Signed: By order of the Committee, Isaac Low, chairman. New-York, July 3, 1770. New-York Historical copy from the Donald F. Clark collection; inlaid. View Item
Text Advertisement. To the publick. : A return having been made to the Committee of Inspection, of the sense of the inhabitants of this city, whether to import every thing except tea, or any other article subject to duty, or to abide by the present non-importa Signed: By order of the committee, Isaac Low, chairman. New-York, July 9, 1770. Not in Evans or Bristol. View Item
Text New-York, June 12, 1770. Advertisement. : Whereas an act was passed last session of Parliament, for repealing the Act imposing a duty on paper, paint and glass, imported from Great Britain into the colonies ... Affirming an intention to adhere to the non-importation agreement as long as duties were imposed. The printing is attributed to John Holt by Harvard University. Cf. John Holt / L.B. Murphy. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982. no.140. New-York Historical copy: creases in the paper at the lower right have caused some imperfections in the printing; from the Donald F. Clark collection; inlaid. View Item
Text New-York, June 12, 1770. Advertisement. : Whereas an act was passed last session of Parliament, for repealing the Act imposing a duty on paper, paint and glass, imported from Great Britain into the colonies ... Affirming an intention to adhere to the non-importation agreement as long as duties were imposed. The printing is attributed to John Holt by Harvard University. Cf. John Holt / L.B. Murphy. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982. no.140. View Item
Text Advertisement, of great importance to the public. : The specious reason assigned by Alexander Robertson, in Mr. Gaine's last paper, relative to his attempting to introduce into this city, certain goods therein mentioned contrary to the agreement subscribe Dated: New-York, June 21, 1769. Ascribed to the press of John Holt by Evans. View Item
Text New-York, July 20th, 1769. Advertisement, of greater importance to the public, than any which has yet appeared on the like occasion. : It was hoped that the odious manner in which some late violators of the non-importation agreement had been held up to th Printed in two 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
Image Text 206 Items John Bowne journal, 1650-1694 John Bowne (1627-1695), Quaker of Flushing, Long Island. Bowne's journal contains entries of births, marriages, and deaths in the family; a few business and personal accounts; mentions of several Quakers both in Britain and the American colonies; accounts of his voyages to and from England; his arrest and imprisonment in 1662 for holding Quaker meetings in his home; his trial before Peter Stuyvesant and deportation; and his appeal to the officials of West India Company in Amsterdam for freedom of religion. View Item