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Extract Of A Letter From Mr. Leonhard Euler, Prof. Mathem. And Member Of The Imperial Society At Petersburgh, To The Rev. Mr. Cha. Wetstein, Chaplain And Secretary To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales, Concerning The Discoveries Of The Russians On The North-East Coast Of Asia., Leonhard Euler

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Rettung Der Göttlichen Offenbahrung Gegen Die Einwürfe Der Freygeister, Leonhard Euler

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Hendrick Ladich To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, April 5, 1746, Hendrick Ladich

Liberty Hall Collection 1740s

Hendrick wrote in Dutch to Peter, address: New York. The verso says May 8, 1746, H. Ladich & Cap. Kip answered.

John Barrett Hiccox & Company To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, January 31, 1746, John Barrett Hiccox & Company

Liberty Hall Collection 1740s

The company wrote to Peter about the sale of wheat, Indian corn, wine, flour, brisket, rice, fish, and stowe's. The verso says Jan. 31st 1746 Barret J. Hiccox.

Portraits Historiques Des Hommes Illustres De Dannemark, Remarquables Par Leur Merite, Leurs Charges & Leur Noblesse, Avec Leurs Tables Généalogiques., Tycho De Hofman, [Copenhague]

Before the Textbook

Historical portraits of famous men of Denmark. Six parts in one volume including plates, genealogical tables and bibliographical references.

Nova Theoria Lucis Et Colorum, Leonhard Euler

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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 …

Problema Geometricum Propositum Publice Ab Anonymo Geometra, Leonhard Euler

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James Alexander With Danioll Donaldson Dunstar, May 23, 1744, James Alexander

Liberty Hall Collection 1740s

The following manuscript documents tracts of land surveyed for Danioll Donaldson Dunstar in the County of Essex within the Grounds of Newark, New Jersey signed by James Alexander, Surveyor General.

James Alexander To John Lawrence: Pine Lands, March 25, 1743, James Alexander

Liberty Hall Collection 1740s

James Alexander wrote to John Lawrence regarding instructions concerning the Pine Land, unaddressed. James Alexander provided further instructions to the Deputy Surveyors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. When they surveyed any lands upon pine warrants, they were also to return the value of the lands to the best of their judgment and note how much land was worth thirty pounds per hundred acres.

Gründliche Untersuchung Der Ursachen, Dorothea Christiana Leporin Erxleben

Essays

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An Impartial Account Of The Late Expedition Against St. Augustine Under General Oglethorpe, Unknown

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A book described by the author as an abstract of the authentic report of the expedition against St. Augustine.

"Petition Of Jonas Rice And Others", James Taylor

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Numerous citizens of Worcestor petition for a public works project.

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God. A Sermon Preached At Enfield, July 8th, 1741., Jonathan Edwards, Reiner Smolinski , Editor

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The God that holds you over the Pit of Hell, much as one holds a Spider, or some loathsome Insect, over the Fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked; his Wrath towards you burns like Fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the Fire; he is of purer Eyes than to bear to have you in his Sight; you are ten thousand Times so abominable in his Eyes as the most hateful venomous Serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn Rebel did his Prince: and …

Methodus Universalis Serierum Convergentium Summas Quam Proxime Inveniendi, Leonhard Euler

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This paper begins with an expression of the trapezoid rule for "formal mechanical quadrature." Euler also sums the first ten terms of ζ(2) to get 1.549768 and gives an expression for the error term. Then he determines the sum of the first million terms of the harmonic series to be 14.392669.

Johannis Roome To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, November 29, 1740, Johannis Roome

Liberty Hall Collection 1740s

Receipt from Johannis Roome (1694-1756) to Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792). The label on the verso says December 1740 Joh. Roome Acct.

An Act For Granting To His Majesty The Sum Of One Million Out Of The Sinking Fund, For The Service Of The Year One Thousand Seven Hundred And Forty; And For Enabling His Majesty To Raise The Further Sum Of Two Hundred Thousand Pounds.

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De Motu Planetarum Et Orbitarum Determinatione, Leonhard Euler

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Hubert Marshall To Peter Van Brugh Livingston, April 2, 1739, Hubert Marshall

Liberty Hall Collection 1730s

Hubert Marshall wrote from New York to Livingston, no address included. Marshall was out "last night and drank hard that I don't know whether I land upon my head or heels but as I heard the sloop was to go away today" he wrote in a hurry.

Names included: Mr. Guerin, Captain Blood, Sir William Younge (Secretary of War), Henry Pelham (Paymaster General of his Majestys forces), and Sergeant Miller.

Von Der Gestalt Der Erden, Leonhard Euler

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A Brief History Of The Pequot War (1736), John Mason, Paul Royster , Editor

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John Mason’s posthumously published account is the most complete contemporary history of the Pequot War of 1636–1637. Written around 1670, and published in part in 1677 (although misattributed by Increase Mather to John Allyn), the complete text was issued by Thomas Prince in 1736. That text is reproduced here in a corrected and annotated edition that includes Prince’s biographical sketch of Mason and various dedicatory and explanatory documents.

John Mason (c.1600–1672) commanded the Connecticut forces in the expedition that wiped out the Pequot fort and village at Mystic and in two subsequent operations that effectively eliminated the Pequots as a …

Memoirs Of Odd Adventures, John Gyles

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An Examination Of William Notcutt's Reply To H.B'S Vindication Of R. Barclay's Apology, Henton Brown

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Wherein the deceit of the said W.N. is father manifested; his many abuses of the people call'd Quakers detected; and the genuine sense of their writers asserted; against his gross and palpable perversions of them.

The Threefold Paradise Of Cotton Mather: An Edition Of "Triparadisus", Reiner Smolinski

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No other American Puritan has fueled both the popular and academic imagination as has Cotton Mather (1663-1728). Colonial America's foremost theologian and historian, Mather was also one of its most powerful voices advocating millennialism. His lifelong preoccupation with this subject culminated in his definitive treatise, "Triparadisus" (1726/1727), left unpublished at his death. In it, Mather justified his ideological revisionism; his response to the philological, historical, and scientific challenges of the Bible as text by English and continental deists; and his hermeneutical break from the orthodox exegeses of his father, Increase Mather, and Joseph Mede. In his critical introduction to this …

Aegidius Bohmius, August Hermann Francke, 16 April 1725, Aegidius Bohmius

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Correspondence, dated 1725, from Aegidius Bohmius, to August Hermann Francke

Crisis Del Ensayo A La Historia De La Florida, Joseph De Salazar

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A short history of Florida spanning 200 years written by Joseph De Salazar.

Effigies, Et Series Chronologica Ministrorum Generalium: Totius Ordinis S. Francisci Minorum Conventualium Concinnatae, Vincenzo Coronelli, 1650-1718

Academy of American Franciscan History Manuscript Collection

16 portraits of the Minister Generals of the Order of Friars Minor, each with handwritten descriptive text and preceded by a portrait of St. Francis of Assisi

Selected Pages From Characteristicks Of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times., Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury

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3 v. illus., port. 2d. ed., corr.

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, Spring 2012. The abstract was prepared by Alexis VanZalen.

An Act For Explaining Several Clauses In An Act Passed The Last Session Of Parliament, For The Relief Of The Sufferers Of The Islands Of Nevis And Saint Christopher, By Reason Of The Invasion Of The French There, In The Year One Thousand Seven Hundred And Five.

British Parliamentary Acts

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Land Grant Between William Penn, E. Shippen, G. Owens, And J. Logan, July 11, 1709, William Penn

Liberty Hall Collection 1700s

The following document is a land grant, on parchment, between William Penn to E. Shippen, G. Owens, and J. Logan.