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Poetical meditations : being the improvement of some vacant hours / by Roger Wolcott, Esq; ; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Bulkley of Colchester.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolcott, Roger, 1679-1767, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 2722.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Indians of North America.
- Woolen and worsted manufacture--New England.
- Woolen and worsted manufacture.
- Connecticut--Poetry.
- Connecticut.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Poems -- 1725.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, lvi, ii, 78 pages, 4 unnumbered pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New London [Conn.]: : Printed and sold by T. Green, 1725.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- The preface is largely a disquisition on the right of the North American Indians to their lands.
- Dedicated to Timothy Edwards.
- "The first volume of verse printed in Connecticut. Joseph Dewey, a maker of woolen cloth in Colchester ... bore the expense of printing the edition on condition of inserting his advertisement, of three pages at the end."--Evans.
- "Errata."--p. [79].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 2722).
- Cited in:
- Evans 2722
- Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 1696
- Johnson, H.A. New London, 207
- Wegelin, O. Amer. poetry, 465
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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