The history of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the original institution and settlement of that province, under the first proprietor and governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the year 1742; with an introduction, respecting, the life of the late W. Penn, prior to the grant of the province, and the religious society of the people called Quakers; --with the first rise of the neighbouring colonies, more particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware. To which is added, a brief description of the said province, and of the general state, in which it flourished, principally between the years 1760 and 1770. The whole including a variety of things, useful and interesting to be known, respecting that country in early time, &c. With an appendix. Written principally between the years 1776 and 1780, by Robert Proud. [Four lines of quotations in Latin] Volume I[-II].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proud, Robert, 1728-1813 18472

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2v. : 1 map, 1 port. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street, 1797[-1798]

Notes:

Imprint of v. 2 varies: Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, no. 106, Chesnut-Street, nearly opposite to the Bank of North America. 1798.

Frontispiece portrait of William Penn (v. 1) signed: J.J. Barralet direxit. [Alexander] Lawson sculp. Drawn from the original bust in the Loganian Library Philadelphia 1 Novr 1797.

Map of Pennsylvania (v. 2) engraved by James Thackara.

Vol. 1: 508 p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 373, [1], 146 p., [1] folded leaf of plates.

Local Notes:

Library copy: v.1 only

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 32729; Evans 34421