Jerry N Showalter, Bookseller
Samuel Langdon
Government Corrupted by Vice, and Recovered by Righteousness....
A Sermon Preached Before the Honorable Congress of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England
$450
Item Details
Watertown, Benjamin Edes, 1775, modern blue boards
very good
This important sermon wa delivered on the 31st day of May in 1775. In the text is the following ' ..A skirmish was brought on; and it is most evident, from a variety of concurring circumstances, as well as numerous depositions both of the prisoners taken by us at that time, and our own men then on the spot only as spectators, that the fire began first on the side of the King's troops. At least five or six of our inhabitants were murderously kill'd by the Regulars at Lexington......The bottom part of the last page is in facsimile. This copy has the embossed ownership of the New Hampshire Historical Society..It is inscribed for Rev. Ebenezer Grosvenor (1739-1788)..He was educated at Yale. This copy has been bound in blue boards. Bottom of the half title has been repaired
Jerry N Showalter, Bookseller
Jerry Showalter
P O Box 84
Ivy, Va., 22945
United States
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