The genuine information, delivered to the legislature of the state of Maryland, relative to the proceedings of the General Convention, lately held at Philadelphia; by Luther Martin, Esquire, attorney-general of Maryland, and one of the delegates in the said convention. Together with a letter to the Hon. Thomas C. Deye, speaker of the House of Delegates, an address to the citizens of the United States, and some remarks relative to a standing army, and a bill of rights. [One line in Latin from Horace]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Luther, 1748-1826 24981

Deye, Thomas Cockey, approximately 1728-1807 61827, Author.

Contributor:

Maryland. General Assembly

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--United States--81640.

Constitutional law.

Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Slave trade--United States.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

viii, 93, [3] p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]

Local Notes:

Library copy: -blank

HSP in LCP.

Historical Society copy Af. 320.4: Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Historical Society copy Af. 320.4: Bound with Pennsylvania, Convention, 1787, Debates, q.v.; item 4 in volume. Modern half sheep; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in modern hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Cited in:

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 6376

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