(REVOLUTION) [Seabury Samuel] Free Thoughts on The Proceedin

Sale 2018 - Lot 373

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UNTARRED AND UNFEATHERED COPY (REVOLUTION.) [Seabury, Samuel.] Free Thoughts, on The Proceedings of the Continental Congress . . . By a Farmer. 24 pages. 8vo, modern wrappers; very minor toning, marginal loss to the bottom corner of C2. [New York], 1774

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"This is the first of four pamphlets written by Seabury attacking the revolutionary measures advocated by the Continental Congress . . . This first pamphlet was answered by Alexander Hamilton in his first published work . . . These tracts created a furor at the time. Seabury was mobbed and imprisoned by the Regulators and the tracts were gathered up and burned at the stake or tarred and feathered and nailed to a whipping post"--Streeter Sale 755; Howes S253; Evans 13602; Sabin 78574; Church 1112; Adams, American Independence 136c.