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An Act To Extend Several Acts For Allowing The Importation And Exportation Of Certain Goods And Merchandize To Porta Maria In The Island Of Jamaica, And To The Port Of Bridge Town In The Island Of Barbadoes

British Parliamentary Acts

No abstract provided.

An Act To Revive And Continue, Until The Twenty-Fifth Day Of March One Thousand Eight Hundred And Nineteen, An Act Made In The Forty-Fourth Year Of His Present Majesty...

British Parliamentary Acts

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Rev. Louis Sibourd To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1817 February 3

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Rosalina Mallon To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1817 January 26

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Sam S. Cooper To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1817 Jan 23

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Ellen Wiseman To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1817 [No Month] 7

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Deaf And Dumb : Or, The Orphan Protected. : An Historical Drama, In Five Acts, Jean Nicolas Bouilly

Deaf Rare Books

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Particulars Of The Capture Of The Spanish Ship Tryal, At The Island Of St. Maria; With The Documents Relating To That Affair., Amasa Delano, Paul Royster, Ed.

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Herman Melville used the incident narrated in Amasa Delano’s 1817 memoir A Narrative of Voyages and Travels as the basis for the story “Benito Cereno,” published in 3 installments in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine (October-December 1855). Melville’s story changed some names and details, and added rich descriptions and moral reflections, while dramatizing Captain Delano’s experience of offering aid to a ship in distress before discovering the situation was not what was first apprehended. Melville had similarly fictionalized a “found” document in writing the novel Israel Potter earlier that same year, but “Benito Cereno” gives a much darker picture of human relations, …

Minutes Taken At The Annual Conferences 1817, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference

South Carolina Conference 1785 Journal

No abstract provided.

Rev. John Cheverus To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 Nov 28

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Ambrose Maréchal To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 Oct 30

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

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Ambrose Maréchal To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 Oct 4

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Rev. John Cheverus To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 Jun 24

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Rev. John F. Moranville To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 June 18

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

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Rev. John F. Moranville To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 May 28

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

M. Renaudet To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1816 January 11

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

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M. Renaudet To Josephine & Rebecca Seton, 1816 January 11

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Copy Of Advertisements In The Marietta Pilot Newspaper, January 5, 1816, Marietta Pilot Newspaper

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed set of advertisements found in The Marietta Pilot newspaper, dated January 5, 1816. Within, a wife named Catherine responds to a previous advertisement placed by her husband, John Galbaugh, which discredited her character. Catherine refutes her husband, claiming that he is the cause of any financial hardship they must endure.

A Statistical View Of The District Of Maine, Moses Greenleaf

Osher Map Library Rare Books

Full title: A Statistical View of the District of Maine; more especially with reference to the Value and Importance of its Interior

Early survey of the District of Maine 1816 by Moses Greenleaf.

1 book: 154 pages

Thomas J. Buffington Copy Of Savage Land Grant, Circa 1816

0793: Thomas J. Buffington Copy of Savage Land Grant Survey, 1816

This collection consists of a handwritten manuscript copy by Thomas J. Buffington of the plots distributed by the Savage Land Grant as resurveyed by Tupper, including plot descriptions. The manuscript is sewn as a pamphlet binding and the end pages include sums and other miscellaneous notes.

Memoir Of Joshua Scottow (1816), "Sigma" (Pseudonym), Paul Royster (Transcribed And Deposited By)

Joshua Scottow Papers

The earliest known account of Scottow's life and writings. Length = 1500 words.

Pamphlet, Narrative Of A Shipwreck, Sarah Allen, Keith Lewis Simmons

Early Visions Bucket

"The Narrative of a Shipwreck, by Sarah Allen, appeared as a pamphlet in two successive Boston editions (1816, 1817). New England readers at the time indeed must have valued this story told, ostensibly, in a female voice, set along the exotic and contentious frontier, and portraying the hardships of a shipwreck along the remote Florida coast, as well as a satisfying and miraculously happy ending."

Anatomy Of The Tube Holothurians Of The Orange Seastars And The Stone Sea-Urchins: A Translation Of Anatomie Der Röhren-Holothurie Des Pomeranzfarbigen Seesterns Und Stein-Seeigels, Friedrich Tiedemann, S. A. Böttger, John M. Lawrence

Integrative Biology Books

No abstract provided.

Minutes Taken At The Annual Conferences 1816, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference

South Carolina Conference 1785 Journal

No abstract provided.

Elizabeth Ann Seton And Josephine Seton To Rev. Pierre Badade, 1815 Nov 27

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

Ellen Wiseman To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1815 October 7

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

An Act To Amend Several Acts Respecting The Exportation And Importation Of Sugar Into And From Ireland; And Further To Regulate The Importation Into Ireland Of Sugar, Coffee, And Other Articles, From Certain Islands In The West Indies.

British Parliamentary Acts

No abstract provided.

Rev. John Cheverus To Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1815 Jan 20

The Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton Family Papers

No abstract provided.

The Wonder Of Wonders, Or, The Remarkable Discovery Of An American Hermit; : Who Lived Upwards Of 200 Years, James Buckland, John Fielding

Albert A. Howard Book History Collection

Chapbook description:

The hermit was purportedly discovered by Capt. James Buckland and Mr. John Fielding, who in 1785 "agreed to travel into the western parts of this vast country, to explore the regions which belong to the United States which are yet unknown to us."

Printed in Kennebunk prior to Maine's statehood.

For more information, please refer to the library catalog.

Recueil Des Définitions Et Réponses Les Plus Remarquables De Massieu Et Clerc, Sourds-Muets, Aux Diverses Questions Quileur Ont Été Faites Dans Les Séances Publiques De M. L’Abbé Sicard, À Londres : Auquel On A Joint L’Alphabet Manuel Des Sourds-Muets, Le Discours D’Ouverture De M. L’Abbé Sicard, Et Une Lettre Explicative De Sa Méthode, M. Laffon De Ladébat, J. H. Sievrac

Deaf Rare Books

English title: A collection of the most remarkable definitions and answers of Massieu and Clerc, deaf and dumb, to the various questions put to them, at the public lectures of the Abbe Sicard, in London to which are joined the manual alphabet of the deaf and dumb, the Abbe's introductory discourse, and a letter explanatory of his system