Lists of subscribers and prospectusues : scrapbook, 1807-1820?.

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Lists of subscribers and prospectusues : scrapbook, 1807-1820?.

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Prospectuses and ms. subscriptions lists include: Rollin, Charles. Rollins ancient history. Boston : Etheridge and Bliss,1807; Doddridge, Philip. Family expositor, or, A paraphrase and version of the New Testament. Boston : Etheridge and Bliss,1807; Bigland, John. Geographical and historical view of the world. Boston : C. Williams, 1812; Trumbull, John. Poetical works of John Trumbull, LL. D. Hartford : S.G. Goodrich, 1820; Paine, Robert Treat. Works in verse and prose. Boston : J. Belcher, 1812; Emporium of arts and sciences. Philadelphia : J. Delaplaine ; Boston : C. Williams, 1812; Nelson, Robert. Practice of true devotion in relation to the end, as well as the means of religion. Boston : T.B. Wait, 1812; Waterman, Elijah. Memoirs of the life and writings of John Calvin. Boston : Cummings & Hilliard, 1813; Riley, James. Authentic narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce. Hartford : The author, 1817; Episcopal Church. Book of common prayer. Boston : Published by Charles Williams, no. 8, State-Street, Elam Bliss, agent, 1811. Also included is an ms. subscription list for: Pindar, Peter. Works of Peter Pindar, Esq. Boston : Charles Williams, 1811. Subscribers listed are predominately from the New England area.

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Riley, James, 1777-1840

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Sea captain, born in Middletown, Connecticut, and became a sailor at the age of fifteen. Following the wreck of his brig Commerce in 1815 and his subsequent captivity in in North Africa, he resettled in Van Wert County, Ohio, in 1821, but resumed a seafaring life in 1831. Died at sea in 1840. From the description of Riley's narrative : manuscript, [1817]. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58775180 James Riley accompanied James Macarthur on an expedi...

Etheridge & Bliss

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Cummings and Hilliard

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Wait, Thomas Baker, 1762-1830

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Williams, Charles, 1789-1854

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Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741

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Bliss, Elam, 1779-1848

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Etheridge, Samuel, 1771-1817

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Belcher, Joshua, 1784?-1816

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Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824

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Philadelphia bookseller and publisher. From the description of Correspondence, 1813-1824. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82415715 Delaplaine (1777-1824) compiled Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters (1815-1818). Ezra C. Gross was a Congressman, ca. 1820; Elizabeth, New York. From the description of Joseph Delaplaine letter : Philadelphia, [P.A.], to Ezra C. Gross, 1819 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1223...

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860

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Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) wrote a popular and widely imitated series of educational works for children under the pen name of Peter Parley. His intent was to provide an alternative to the British biases of 19th-century schoolroom texts and the questionable morals of nursery rhymes. He also created two children's magazines, Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine, as well as an annual gift book, The Token. Goodrich served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1837 and held the post of U.S. c...

Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819

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Peter Pindar is the pseudonym of John Wolcot, an English satirist. From the guide to the Peter Pindar letter to John Walker, 1805-1812, (Ohio University) John Wolcot studied medicine in London, took his M.D. at Aberdeen, and became physician-general of Jamaica. After returning to England, he met the painter John Opie and in 1780 the two moved from Truro to London, where Wolcot devoted himself to the writing of verse satires, mostly published under the name "Peter Pindar." ...

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...