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Minutes of a conspiracy against the liberties of America
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks La.33 (Quarto Dep.)
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Eyewitness accounts of the American Revolution
- Standardized Title:
- Minutes of the trial and examination of certain persons, in the province of New York
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hickey Plot, 1776.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, iv, 111 p. 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] New York times [1969]
- Notes:
- Reprint of the 1865 ed.
- Originally published, London, Printed for J. Bew, 1776 (and reprinted by him in 1786) under title: Minutes of the trial and examination of certain persons, in the province of New York, charged with being engaged in a conspiracy against the authority of the Congress and the liberties of America. The reprint of 1786, incl. t.p., is here given, with introd. and notes added.
- An account of the so-called Hickey plot, formed during the American occupation of New York City in 1776. "The whole publication is a clumsy Tory forgery." P. L. Ford The true George Washington. Philadelphia, 1896, p. 107.
- Preface of the reprint signed: W. (i.e. William Wightman?).
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