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A Collection Of Acts Of Parliament, And Clauses Of Acts Of Parliament, Relative To Those Protestant Dissenters Who Are Usually Called By The Name Of Quakers, From The Year 1688, John Bellers

Historical Quaker Books

This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.

The Journal Of Major George Washington, George Washington

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In October of 1753, George Washington, a 21-year-old major in the Virginia militia, volunteered to carry a letter from the governor of Virginia to the French commander of the forts recently built on the headwaters of the Ohio River in northwestern Pennsylvania. The French had recently expanded their military operations from the Great Lakes into the Ohio country, and had spent the summer of 1753 building forts and roads along the Allegheny River, with the design of linking their trade routes and sphere of influence down the Ohio to the Mississippi. Virginia governor Robert Dinwiddie believed them to be in …

A Pious Warning To All Wicked And Impenitent Sinners, Author Unknown

Broadside Ballads: England

Set forth in the confession and plain conviction of Bezaleel Knowles, a young Quaker, about 17: Who, before the learned, righteous and honourable Judge Sir Michael Foster, was try'd at York, on Saturday, March 24 1753, found guilty, and sentenc'd to be executed [ill.] the 16th, between 8 and 12, for the horrid, barbarous and almost unparallell'd Murder of Mrs. Dorothy Gibson, late of Knaresborough, on the 25th of January last.

Quit-Rent Receipt For 401.5 Acres Of Land In South Carolina, 1750., George William Frederick, George Someby

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Receipt for quit-rent of 16 shillings paid by Thomas Lamboll for 401.5 acres in Berkeley and (historical) Craven County, South Carolina, 1750.

Letter From Robert Livingston To Messieurs Storke And Gainsborough Of London, Written March 19, 1734 From South Carolina., Robert Livingston

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Livingston requests that cargo of a sloop sailing from South Carolina to New York be insured.

(Deducing by the date of this item, the author/creator is neither of the father and son Robert Livingstons, the latter known as a founding father of the U.S.)

Donovan Family Recipe Book, Donovan Family

Manuscripts

This book was started by Mary Ogle (sometimes called Marie) in 1713. She was the daughter of the Reverend Honourable Samuel Ogle, M.P. for Berswick and Commissioner of Revenue for Ireland who resided at Bowsden, North Cumberland and Stephen’s Green with his wife Elizabeth Pringle Dawson.

Mary married Captain John Broughton of Maidstone, Kent in 1720 and their daughter Mary was born in Jersey in 1724. She was an heiress and married Edward Donovan, Barrister at Law, of Ballymore, Co. Wexford and 24, Peter Street, Dublin in 1747. They had 21 children, sixteen lived and five died unbaptized. Perhaps, some …

Some Reasons For An European State, Proposed To The Powers Of Europe, By An Universal Guarantee, And An Annual Congress, Senate, Dyet, Or Parliament, To Settle Any Disputes About The Bounds And Rights Of Princes And States Hereafter..., John Bellers

Historical Quaker Books

Excerpt from the conclusion of Beller's argument for an European state: "The judicious sayings, of Henry the 4th of France, show him to be a Prince of great sense, and the Multitude of difficulties her surmounted, of great Courage, but no one thing bespeaks the excellency of his Mind, more than his great Desire, for the Uniting of Christendom.

His excluding the Muscovites, and the Ottomans out of it, I take as a Complement to the See of Rome.

For as nothing makes Nations, and People more Barbarous than War; so Peace must be the first step, to fit Mankind …

Essays About The Poor, Manufactures, Trade, Plantations, & Immorality And Of The Excellency And Divinity Of Inward Light, Demonstrated From The Attributes Of God And The Nature Of Mans Soul, As Well As From The Testimony Of The Holy Scriptures (1699), John Bellers

Historical Quaker Books

A series of essays by John Bellers.

A Declaration Of The Sad And Great Persecution And Martyrdom Of The People Of God, Called Quakers, In New-England, For The Worshipping Of God, Edward Burroughs

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From 1656 through 1661, the Massachusetts Bay Colony experienced an “invasion” of Quaker missionaries, who were not deterred by the increasingly severe punishments enacted and inflicted by the colonial authorities. In October 1659, two (William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson) were hanged at Boston; in June 1660, Mary Dyar (or Dyer) became the third; in March 1661, William Leddra became the fourth (and last) to suffer capital punishment or “mar-tyrdom” for their Quaker beliefs.While members of the Society of Friends rushed to Massachu-setts to test the harsh sentences under the newly enacted laws, other Friends in England simultaneously petitioned Parliament and …

The Christian Commonwealth: Or, The Civil Policy Of The Rising Kingdom Of Jesus Christ, John Eliot

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John Eliot (1604-1690), the Puritan missionary to the New England Indians, developed this plan of political organization for the Christianized tribes that he converted. In the late 1640s, he adapted it for English use and sent a manuscript copy to England, where it appeared in print 10 years later, in 1659, following the death of Cromwell and before the accession of Charles II.

Eliot’s “Preface” to the work was far more radical and troublesome than the utopian theocracy described in the main body. “Much is spoken of the rightful Heir of the Crown of England, and the unjustice of casting …

Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam : Or, A Plain Philosophicall Demonstration Of The Nature, Faculties, And Effects Of All Such Things As By Way Of Nourishments Make For The Preservation Of Health, With Divers Necessary Dieteticall Observations; As Also Of The True Use And Effects Of Sleep, Exercise, Excretions And Perturbations, With Just Applications To Every Age, Constitution Of Body, And Time Of Yeere ... Whereunto Is Annexed ... A Necessary And Compendious Treatise Of The Famous Baths Of Bathe, With A Censure Of The Medicinable Faculties Of The Water Of Saint Vincent's Rocks Neere The City Of Bristoll. As Also An Accurate Treatise Concerning Tobacco, Tobias Venner

Rare Books at James White Library

The baths of Bathe" and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco" have special title pages dated 1637. Imperfect: p. 265-272 mutilated.

1901, Soil Survey Of The Lower Salinas Valley California, Macy H. Lapham And W. H. Heleman

State and Federal Documents Relating to Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties

1901 report by Macy H. Lapham and W. H. Heilman on the Lower Salinas Valley including location and boundaries, history of settlement and agricultural development, climate, physiography and geology and the classes of soil. The report includes a map depicting underground water.