Free thoughts, on the proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, l774: wherein their errors are exhibited, their reasonings confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption measures, are laid open to the plainest understandings: and the only means pointed out for preserving and securing our present happy constitution: in a letter to the farmers, and other inhabitants of North America in general, and to those of the province of New-York in particular. / By a farmer...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Continental Congress.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

Politics and government.

New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1783.

New York (State).

Physical Description:

24 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

[New York], [publisher not identified], Printed in the year 1774.

Notes:

Signatures: A-C⁴

Printed by James Rivington.

Dated and signed, on p. 23: November 16, 1774. A.W. Farmer.

"That ... Seabury was the author of the ... [three] pamphlets signed A.W. Farmer, there is no longer any doubt, but through an error of judgment ... their authorship has been attributed to some of his contemporariews, notably, to Isaac Wilkins."--Samuel Seabury. Letters of a Westchester farmer ... ed. ... by C.H. Vance. 1930, p. 19.

Sometimes attributed to Seabury and Wilkins jointly.

Cited in:

Evans 13602

OCLC:

6298027