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YEAR.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

1770.

Morgan Edwards: Materials towards a History of the
American Baptist Church (Vol. I.).
Phillis Wheatley [Peters]: Elegiac Poem on the Death

of George Whitefield.

John Woolman: Considerations on the True Harmony

of Mankind.

Narrative of the Boston Massacre.1
Trial of the British Soldiers.
THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY established.

1771. American Philosophical Society: Transactions (Vol 1.).2 Anthony Benezet: Historical Account of Guinea with an Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade.

1772.

Charles Chauncy: A Complete View of Episcopacy from the Fathers of the Christian Church until the Close of the Second Century (probably written).

Franklin: First Five Chapters of Autobiography (written).

Timothy Dwight: America. A Poem.
Nathaniel Evans: Occasional Poems, with Other Com-

positions. [Philadelphia.]

Freneau (with Brackenridge?): The Rising Glory of
America. [Philadelphia.]

[Rush]: Sermons to Gentlemen on Temperance and

Exercise.

James Swan: A Dissuasion to Great Britain and the
Colonies from the Slave-Trade to Africa.
John Trumbull: The Progress of Dulness (Part I.).
Joseph Warren: Oration on the Boston Massacre (two

editions).8

Stephen West: An Essay upon Moral Agency. [New
Haven.]

1 Printed by order of the town of Boston.

2 Publication began in parts appended to THE AMERICAN

MAGAZINE in r769.

8 Printed by order of the town of Boston.

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YEAR.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

1773.

1774.

1775.

John Allen: The American Alarm; or, The Bostonian's
Plea for the Rights and Liberties of the People.
Theophilus Parsons and Eliphalet Pearson: African
Slavery. A Forensic Dispute at Cambridge.
Phillis Wheatley [Peters]: Poems on Various Sub-
jects, Religious and Moral.

[Rush]: Address to the Inhabitants of the British Set-
tlements in America upon Slave-Keeping.

Elhanan Winchester: Occasional Poems.
John Woolman: Serious Considerations on Various Im-
portant Subjects, with Some of his Dying Expres-
sions. Edited by Mary Hende. [London.]

John Adams: Letters of Novanglus (in the Boston Ga-
ZETTE).

Miles Cooper: Ethices Compendium in Usum Collegio-
rum Americanorum.

[John Dickinson]: Essay upon the Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the American Colonies.

[Jacob Duché]: Caspipina's Letters.

Edwards: History of Redemption.

Freneau: A Voyage to Boston.

[Hamilton]: Vindication of the Measures of Congress. Hopkinson: A Pretty Story.

[Jefferson]: Summary View of the Rights of British

America.

Rush: Natural History of Medicine among the Indians

of North America.1

[Johnston Sewall?]: The Americans Roused in a Cure

for the Spleen.

John Trumbull: Elegy on the Times.
John Witherspoon: Nature and Extent of the Legisla-
tive Authority of the British Parliament.

Journal of the Proceedings of Congress.

Freneau: General Gage's Confession.
Joseph Galloway: Claims of Great Britain and the Col-
onies.

[Hamilton]: The Farmer Refuted. A Vindication of
Congress.

1 In an oration before the American Philosophical Society.

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Goldsmith died. Southey born. Burke: Speech on American Taxation.

Earl of Chesterfield: Letters to his Son.

Goldsmith: Retaliation.

Priestley: Experiments on Air.

Warton: History of English

Poetry (Vol. I.).

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YEAR.

WORKS PUBLISHED.

1775 Cont.

Isaac Hunt: The Political Family.
David Leonard: Origin of the American Contest with

Great Britain.

Thomas Paine: THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE or
AMERICAN MONTHLY MUSEUM. [Philadelphia.1]
Rittenhouse: Oration on Astronomy before the American
Philosophical Society.

Bernard Romans: Natural History of East and West

Florida.

William Smith (1727-1803): The Present Situation of
American Affairs.

[John Trumbull] : McFingal (Canto I.).
Mercy Otis Warren: The Group. A Political Comedy.
Edward Wigglesworth, Jr.: Calculations on American

Population.

1776. Samuel Adams: Earnest Appeal to the People. Brackenridge: Bunker's Hill.

Samuel Hopkins: A Dialogue concerning the Slavery of

Africans.

Hopkinson: The Prophecy.

Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Paine: Common Sense.

THE CRISIS (No. 1).

William Smith (1727-1803): Oration in Memory of

General Montgomery. (Philadelphia and London.]

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1 Ran to July, 1776; the last number contained the Declaration of Independence.

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