At the present period it is not desirable to multiply appeals to the charitable feelings of the community; : but a painful circumstance, connected with the war in which we are involved, has imposed on us an obligation, which, as Christians and Americans, we should be anxious to discharge. It is generally known, that a number of the Bibles bearing the stamp of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and designed for charitable distribution in the neighbouring British provinces, were taken by an American privateer and sold at public auction ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massachusetts Bible Society.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 27937.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Massachusetts Bible Society.

British and Foreign Bible Society.

Bible--Publication and distribution--North America.

Bible.

Bible--Publication and distribution--Societies, etc.

Privateering.

History.

United States--History--War of 1812--Religious aspects.

United States.

United States--History--War of 1812--Prizes, etc.

North America.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

Boston : [publisher not identified], [1813]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Appeal for contributions to replace the Bibles, "computed at about six hundred dollars ... By a vote of the 'Bible Society of Massachusetts' this subscription is opened. Boston, July 17th, 1813."

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