From our Yearly Meeting held at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, from the 22d Day of the Ninth Month, to the 28th of the same (inclusive) 1759. / To the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Friends belonging to the said Yearly Meeting
- [Philadelphia: William Bradford, Jr. ?], 1759
[Philadelphia: William Bradford, Jr. ?], 1759. Near Fine. Folio (8” x 13”). pp. [1] 2-3 [4]. One leave folded to make four pages. Untrimmed. Docket title printed in letterpress on page 4: “1759 / The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia.” Light folds, small tears near the center of each leaf and the upper extremities, else near fine. Armorial watermark on the second leaf.
A scarce, Colonial-era Quaker Meeting Epistle on the “Calamities” suffered by Friends and fellow Subjects during the French and Indian War, most likely printed by William Bradford, Jr. in Philadelphia. An historically important report dating from the height of the French and Indian War (1754-63). It states: “In former Wars between the English and other Nations, since the Settlement of our Provinces, the Calamities attending them have fallen chiefly on other Places, but now of late they have reached our Borders; many of our fellow Subjects have suffered on and near our Frontiers, some have been slain in Battle, some killed in their Houses, and some in their Fields, some wounded and left in great Misery, and others separated from their Wives and little Children, who have been carried Captives among the Indians.” Ascribed to the press of Benjamin Franklin and D. Hall by Evans and Hildeburn, Miller rejects the ascription and suggests that William Bradford Jr. may have been the printer. A well-preserved, untrimmed copy.
*Evans* 8350; Hildeburn, *Pennsylvania* 1627; Miller, *Franklin* B84; *ESTC* W12278.
A scarce, Colonial-era Quaker Meeting Epistle on the “Calamities” suffered by Friends and fellow Subjects during the French and Indian War, most likely printed by William Bradford, Jr. in Philadelphia. An historically important report dating from the height of the French and Indian War (1754-63). It states: “In former Wars between the English and other Nations, since the Settlement of our Provinces, the Calamities attending them have fallen chiefly on other Places, but now of late they have reached our Borders; many of our fellow Subjects have suffered on and near our Frontiers, some have been slain in Battle, some killed in their Houses, and some in their Fields, some wounded and left in great Misery, and others separated from their Wives and little Children, who have been carried Captives among the Indians.” Ascribed to the press of Benjamin Franklin and D. Hall by Evans and Hildeburn, Miller rejects the ascription and suggests that William Bradford Jr. may have been the printer. A well-preserved, untrimmed copy.
*Evans* 8350; Hildeburn, *Pennsylvania* 1627; Miller, *Franklin* B84; *ESTC* W12278.