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News Article Requesting Information On The Whereabouts Of An Enslaved Person Named Sarah, Andrew Stewart

Lantern Project

News article requesting information or the return of an enslaved woman named Sarah, presumed to have run away

Minutes Taken At The Annual Conferences, 1786, Methodist Episcopal Church.

South Carolina Conference 1785 Journal

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An Act To Discontinue, For A Limited Time, The Payment Of The Duties Upon Low Wines And Spirits For Home Consumption, And For Granting And Securing The Due Payment Of Other Duties In Lieu Thereof...

British Parliamentary Acts

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Speculationes Super Formula Integrali ∫(XNDx)/√(Aa–2Bx+Cxx), Ubi Simul Egregiae Observationes Circa Fractiones Continuas Occurrunt, Leonhard Euler

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Affadavitt, Signed By Lyman Hall, Lyman Hall

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Affadavitt, signed by Lyman Hall, concerning certifcates from Jacob Read, 1780.

Legal Document Prepared By Charles Lee, Charles Lee

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Charles Lee signs for plantiff George Ralls who is suing Charles Carter for payment and damages, 1785.

Warrant Signed By Isaac Huger, Charleston, 1785., Isaac Huger, State Of South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Warrant signed by Isaac Huger, commanding to send Tompson Simons to Charleston, dated March 1, 1785.

Romeo And Juliet / By Will. Shakspere ; Printed Complete From The Text Of Sam. Johnson And Geo. Steevens ; And Revised From The Last Editions., William Shakespeare

Selections from Special Collections

v, [2], 8-130 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm. (12mo)

Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Fall 2014. The abstract was prepared by Alexandra Koszewski.

An Act For Allowing Further Time For The Importation Of Goods The Produce Or Manufacture Of The Island Of Tobago, Upon Payment Of The British Plantation Duties.

British Parliamentary Acts

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De Relatione Inter Ternas Pluresve Quantitates Instituenda, Leonhard Euler

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An Act For Settling An Annuity Of Nine Thousand Pounds On His Royal Highness The Duke Of Gloucester, In Lieu Of The Like Annuity Payable Out Of The Duties Of Four And One Half Per Centum In Barbadoes And The Leeward Islands.

British Parliamentary Acts

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Methodus Inveniendi Formulas Integrales, Quae Certis Casibus Datam Inter Se Teneant Rationem, Ubi Sumul Methodus Traditur Fractiones Continuas Summandi, Leonhard Euler

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De Numero Memorabili In Summatione Progressionis Harmonicae Naturalis Occurrente, Leonhard Euler

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Minutes Taken At The Annual Conferences, 1785, Methodist Episcopal Church.

South Carolina Conference 1785 Journal

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Notification Letter Of Land Warrant To Col. John Fitzgerald, Signed Benjamin Harrison, Benjamin Harrison

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Letter to Col. John Fitzgerald from Benjamin Harrison, concerning a warrant for 5333 1/3 acres of land, dated April 3, 1784.

The Sunday Service Of The Methodists In North America, Methodist Episcopal Church

ATS Digital Resources

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Excerpt, An Historical Narrative And Topographical Description Of Louisiana And West Florida, Thomas Hutchins, Michelle Sonnenberg, Hannah Gorski

Early Visions Bucket

"An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana and West Florida (1784) gives a base description of the coastline, river systems, and barrier islands of Louisiana and West Florida. Thomas Hutchins utilizes soundings and charts created by George Gauld, an engineer employed by the British Admiralty to survey the Gulf Coast. (Sections included here are the Preface, descriptions of the West Florida Panhandle and the Tortugas, the Conclusion, and a Table of Distances that closes the volume.)"

De Ellipsi Minima Dato Parallelogrammo Rectangulo Circumscribenda, Leonhard Euler

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Letter From Anthony Wayne To Mordecai Gist, Anthony Wayne

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Letter from Anthony Wayne, concerns the mode of introduction for the army officers before the South Carolina assembly, invites Gist and his family to dine with him and his officers where they may discuss the details, dated January 15, 1783.

An Act For Allowing The Importation Of Goods From Europe In Neutral Ships Into The Islands Of Saint Christopher, Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, Saint Vincent, Grenada, And The Grenadines...

British Parliamentary Acts

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The United States Elevated To Glory And Honor (1783), Ezra Stiles D.D., Reiner Smolinski , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Stiles' best-known work is this 1783 election sermon, which was delivered at Hartford, Connecticut, at the annual election of the governor, state representatives, and senators. True to the spirit of his Puritan ancestors, Stiles sounds a number of time-honored American themes newly adapted to the rising prospects of the young United States of America. What was once a tribal Errand into the Wilderness of New England Stiles now translates into God’s federal covenant with all citizens of the United States—no matter what their parochial creed or particular denomination: “The political welfare of God’s American Israel” is “allusively prophetic of the …

Quomodo Sinus Et Cosinus Angulorum Multiplorum Per Producta Exprimi Queant, Leonhard Euler

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De Serie Lambertina Plurimisque Eius Insignibus Proprietatibus, Leonhard Euler

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De Statu Aequilibrii Maris A Viribus Solis Et Lunae Sollicitati, Leonhard Euler

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Land Grant To Andrew Hynes, Signed By Benjamin Harrison June 1, 1782, Benjamin Harrison

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Land grant to Andrew Hynes, signed by Benjamin Harrison of Virginia. Document grants 400 acres of land to Andrew Hynes, June 1, 1782.

An Act For Allowing The Importation Of Goods Of The Growth, Produce, Or Manufacture, Of The Islands Of Saint Christopher, Nevis, And Montserrat, Into Any Ports Of His Majesty's Dominions In Europe Or America, Upon Payment Of The British Plantation Duties.

British Parliamentary Acts

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De Formatione Fractionum Continuarum, Leonhard Euler

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Trigonometria Sphaerica Universa, Ex Primis Principiis Breviter Et Dilucide Derivata, Leonhard Euler

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Poem, Triumphant Victory At Pensacola, Bernardo De Gálvez, Jonathan Tharrin, Nicole Darbois

Early Visions Bucket

"Gálvez’s poem ... is translated into English for the first time by Jonathan Tharin as 'The Triumphant Victory at Pensacola.' Gálvez creates a two-part ode glorifying the defeat of the British by his Spanish forces and the subsequent celebration of their victory"

The French Gazette, Norman Desmarais, Carl Becker

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The French Gazette is an English translation of the Gazette Françoise, the French newspaper published in Newport, RI by the French fleet that brought the Count de Rochambeau and 5800 French troops to America in July, 1780. The newspaper intended to translate various news items printed in American newspapers to keep the officers and men abreast of political events in this emerging nation. It is the first known service newspaper published by an expeditionary force. The French facsimile edition is also available elsewhere on this site.