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Memoir Of The Indian Wars, John Stuart

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A Short Account Of That Part Of Africa Inhabited By The Negroes, Anthony Benezet, Paul Royster , Ed.

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Anthony Benezet scoured the available English literature of colonial exploitation for evidence of the humanity of the trafficked Africans and the inhumanity of the European traders in human beings. He compiled and published this Short Account in 1762 to present the case for termination of the trans-Atlantic transportation of kidnapped Africans, for abolition of slavery and the slave trade, and for emancipation of the enslaved persons held in bondage in North America and elsewhere. Drawing on Scottish moral philosophy, British Whig ideology, and, most importantly, on New Testament gospel teachings, Benezet presented both reasoned and impassioned appeals for the recognition …

Christiaan Leendertz, Land Record, 2 August 1760, Christiaan Leendertz

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Land record (Government Record), dated August 2, 1760, from Christiaan Leendertz

Harmen Scholtens, Hendrik Kops, 17 June 1760, Harmen Scholtens

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated June 17, 1760, from Harmen Scholtens, to Hendrik Kops

Letter From Francis L. Lee To Mr. Stuart, Francis Lightfoot Lee

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Francis Lightfoot Lee writes to W. Stuart requesting the services of his carpenter.

Christiaan Leendertz, Biographical, 1 January 1760, Christiaan Leendertz

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Biographical, dated 1760, from Christiaan Leendertz

Harmen Scholtens, Johannes Deknatel, 19 November 1758, Harmen Scholtens

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated November 19, 1758, from Harmen Scholtens, to Johannes Deknatel

Michael Kauffman; Jacob Borner; Samuel Böhm; Daniel Stauffer, Committee For Foreign Need, 2 September 1758, Michael Kauffman, Jacob Borner, Samuel Böhm, Daniel Stauffer

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated September 2, 1758, from Michael Kauffman; Jacob Borner; Samuel Böhm; Daniel Stauffer, to Committee For Foreign Need

6 May 1757, Unknown

Abraham Correspondence, Volume 364

Correspondence, dated May 6, 1757 (06 5mo. 1757 Quaker Style)

Gotthilf August Francke, George Strauss, 2 June 1756, Gotthilf August Francke

Archive of the Franckeschestiftungen Correspondence

Correspondence, dated June 2, 1756, from Gotthilf August Francke, to George Strauss

1755, Unknown

Abraham Correspondence, Volume 364

Land record (Government Record), dated November 28, 1755

The Journal Of Major George Washington (1754), George Washington, Paul Royster , Editor

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The Journal of Major George Washington, Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq; His Majesty’s Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander In Chief Of Virginia, to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio. To Which Are Added, the Governor’s Letter, and a Translation of the French Officer’s Answer.

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 …

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 …

Unknown, Community Record, 1 January 1754, Unknown

Francke Nachlass Correspondence

Community Record, dated 1754, from anonymous

De Bestiis Marinis Or, The Beasts Of The Sea, Georg Wilhelm Steller

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Steller’s classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or “sea bear” (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris).

Steller’s sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. It was first discovered by Europeans in 1741 and rendered extinct by 1768. It was a 30-foot long, plant-eating aquatic mammal, weighing …

A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission And Non-Resistance To The Higher Powers: With Some Reflections On The Resistance Made To King Charles I. And On The Anniversary Of His Death: In Which The Mysterious Doctrine Of That Prince's Saintship And Martyrdom Is Unriddled (1750). An Online Electronic Text Edition., Jonathan Mayhew A.M., D.D., Paul Royster , Editor & Depositor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

After the Restoration of the English monarchy in the person of Charles II in 1660, the new king and his first Parliament declared the anniversary of the beheading of his father Charles I (January 30, 1649) a religious holiday with a special commemoration in the Book of Common Prayer, naming the late monarch a saint and martyr. This holiday was not generally celebrated in Massachusetts until the emergence of several Anglican churches there in the early eighteenth century. In 1750, Jonathan Mayhew, the twenty-nine-yearold pastor of the West (Congregational) Church in Boston, took occasion to dispute the first Charles’ credentials …

A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission And Non-Resistance To The Higher Powers: With Some Reflections On The Resistance Made To King Charles I. And On The Anniversary Of His Death: In Which The Mysterious Doctrine Of That Prince’S Saintship And Martyrdom Is Unriddled, Jonathan Mayhew

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After the Restoration of the English monarchy in the person of Charles II in 1660, the new king and his first Parliament declared the anniversary of the beheading of his father Charles I (January 30, 1649) a religious holiday with a special commemoration in the Book of Common Prayer, naming the late monarch a saint and martyr. This holiday was not generally celebrated in Massachusetts until the emergence of several Anglican churches there in the early eighteenth century. In 1750, Jonathan Mayhew, the twenty-nine-yearold pastor of the West (Congregational) Church in Boston, took occasion to dispute the first Charles’ credentials …

Two (2) South Carolina Colonial Documents, Signed By John Lining, John Lining

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

John Lining signs two South Carolina colonial documents, an order to pay damages and a warrant, in 1748.

The Lady's Drawing Room. Being A Faithful Picture Of The Great World. In Which The Various Humours Of Both Sexes Are Display'd. Drawn From The Life: And Interspers'd With Entertaining And Affecting Novels. The Second Edition., Unknown

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A Narrative Of The Captivity Of Nehemiah How In 1745-1747, Nehemiah How, Victor Hugo Paltsits

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Nehemiah How was captured by a raiding party of Abenaki Indians October 11, 1745, outside the fort at Great Meadow (now Vermont). He was taken to Quebec and held captive until his death from "fever" on May 27, 1747. He was among several hundred English colonists taken prisoner during the war. His account recalls his treatment and records the comings and fates of dozens of other prisoners held at Quebec during what was known as King George's War, part of the global War of Austrian Succession.

John Abraham, 17 April 1747, John Abraham

Abraham Correspondence, Volume 364

Account (Financial), dated April 17, 1747 (17 2mo. 1747 Quaker Style), from John Abraham

John Abraham, 13 June 1746, John Abraham

Abraham Correspondence, Volume 364

Financial, dated June 13, 1746, from John Abraham

Marvellous Things Done By The Right Hand And Holy Arm Of God In Getting Him The Victory (1745), Charles Chauncy, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

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This sermon demonstrates that Charles Chauncy was not beyond preaching on the more mundane subjects of the period. His 1745 thanksgiving sermon Marvellous Things done by the right Hand and holy Arm of God in getting him the Victory (courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society) was preached on the occasion of the British victory at Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island (1745), over superior French forces. Chauncy traces God’s providential hand in the war with French Canada and describes how God’s interposition is clearly visible in the miraculous appearance of a British supply ship, in the capture of a French man-of-war, in …

Hans Burckholder, Johannes Deknatel, 6 May 1744, Hans Burckholder

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated May 6, 1744, from Hans Burckholder, to Johannes Deknatel

Charles Iv Theodore, Administrative Document, 27 April 1744, Charles Iv Theodore

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Administrative document (Government Record), dated April 27, 1744, from Charles IV Theodore

Hans Burckholder, Johannes Deknatel, 10 April 1744, Hans Burckholder

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated April 10, 1744, from Hans Burckholder, to Johannes Deknatel

Hans Burckholder, Bartholemeus Von Leuvenig, 24 August 1743, Hans Burckholder

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated August 24, 1743, from Hans Burckholder, to Bartholemeus Von Leuvenig

Hans Burckholder, Bartholemeus Von Leuvenig, 15 December 1742, Hans Burckholder

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated December 15, 1742, from Hans Burckholder, to Bartholemeus Von Leuvenig

Herman Ten Kate; Joachim Van Anklam; Committee For Foreign Need, [Hans Anken]; [Rudolf Leutscher], 17 November 1742, Committee For Foreign Need, Herman Ten Ten Kate, Joachim Van Van Anklam

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated November 17, 1742, from Herman Ten Kate; Joachim Van Anklam; Committee For Foreign Need, to [Hans Anken]; [Rudolf Leutscher]

Teunis Freriksen; [Alles Medandarp], Joachim Van Anklam; Committee For Foreign Need, 3 November 1742, Teunis Freriksen, Alles Medandarp

Doopsgezinde Collection 565.A

Correspondence, dated November 3, 1742, from Teunis Freriksen; [Alles Medandarp], to Joachim Van Anklam; Committee For Foreign Need