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YEAR.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

1740.

William Cooper: Doctrine of Predestination Explained

and Vindicated.

1741.

Aquila Rose: Poems on Several Occasions.
William Seward: Journal of a Voyage from Savannah
to Philadelphia and from Philadelphia to England.
[London and Boston.] 1

Samuel Blair: Vindication of Whitefield.
Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Franklin: THE GENERAL MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL
CHRONICLE FOR ALL THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS

IN AMERICA. [Monthly, February to July.] 2
Patrick Tailfer (with others): A True and Historical
Narrative of the Colony of Georgia.

John Webbe: THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE; or, a Monthly
View of the Political State of the British Colonies.
[Philadelphia, 3 numbers.] 2

[Anon.]: Parents' Gift; Hymns, Scriptural Selections,
Lives of the Evangelists, etc., by which Children May
Soon be Taught the True Principles of the Christian
Faith (illustrated).

New Year's Verses of the Carriers of the AMERICAN
WEEKLY MERCURY.

1742.

Charles Chauncy: A Faithful Account of the French
Prophets, Their Agitations, Ecstasies, etc.
James Davenport: A Poem on His Departure from

Boston, in the Way of a Dream.
Edwards: Some Thoughts Concerning the Present
Revival of Religion in New England.

Hirtenlieder von Bethlehem. [Germantown.]

1 The author was a companion of Whitefield.

2 Earliest attempts to establish a monthly magazine in America.

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1 Philadelphia, partly reprinted at Boston.

2 Known in the

colonies as King George's War.

YEAR.

1743.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

George Cadogan: The Spanish Hireling Detected.
Charles Chauncy: Seasonable Thoughts on the State

of Religion in New England.1

Thomas Clap: Introduction to the Study of Philosophy.
G. Fox: Instruction for Right Spelling and Plain Direc-
tions for Reading and Writing True English.
Franklin: Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge
among the British Plantations in America.

The AMERICAN MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL CHRONI-
CLE.2

The CHRISTIAN HISTORY MAGAZINE.8

1744.

1745.

Mather Byles: Poems.

Harvard College: Testimony of the President, Professors,
Tutors and Hebrew Instructor against George White-
field.

Daniel Horsmanden: The New York Conspiracy.
[Samuel Johnson) (" Aristocles"): Ethica. [New
Haven.]

James Logan: Translation of De Senectute (with notes;
published by Franklin).

A Collection of Poems by Several Hands. [Boston.]

Cadwallader Colden: Dissertation on the First Principles

in Physics.

Jonathan Dickinson: Familiar Letters to a Gentleman
upon a Variety of Seasonable and Important Sub-
jects in Religion.

Mary Lloyd: Meditations on Divine Subjects. With an
Account of her Life by E. Pemberton.

Yale College: Declaration of the Rector and Tutors
against George Whitefield.

1 Against Whitefield.

2 Boston, monthly, Sept., 1743, to Dec., 1746.

8 Boston, weekly, 1743-1745.

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YEAR.

1746.

1747.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

David Brainerd: Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos. [Phila-
delphia.]

Edwards: Treatise on the Religious Affections.
[Franklin]: Reflections on Courtship and Marriage.
Whitefield: Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present

Situation of the Orphan House in Georgia.

of Negroes.

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Conrad Beissel (and others): Das Gesäng der Einsamen
Turtel-Taube. [Ephrata].
[Anthony Benezet]: Observations on the Inslaving
William Douglass: A Summary, Historical and Politi-
cal, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements
and Present State of the British Settlements in North
America (completed in 1751).

Edwards: Humble Attempt to Promote the Visible
Union of God's People in Extraordinary Prayer for
the Revival of Religion.

[Franklin] ("a Tradesman of Philadelphia"): Plain Truth; or, Serious Considerations of the Present State of the City of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania. William Livingston: Philosophic Solitude; or, The

Choice of a Rural Life.

John Merchant: History of the Late Rebellion in Great
Britain.

Samuel Niles: Poem on the Reduction of Louisburg.
William Stith: History of the First Discovery and Set-
tlement of Virginia (to 1624). [Williamsburg.]
Eine Deutsche und Englische Grammatik. [Germantown.]

1748. William Currie: A Treatise on the Lawfulness of Defensive War. [Philadelphia.]

Jared Eliot: An Essay on Field Husbandry in New
England (completed by Part VI. in 1759).

John Norton: The Redeemed Captive.
Gilbert Tennent: Defensive War Defended.

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