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Book/Printed Material To the inhabitants of King's County

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Title

  • To the inhabitants of King's County : Friends and fellow-citizens, you were addressed a few days since, in Dutch, by a person under the signature of a King's County farmer, intended as a reply, to a publication of mine, to you on the 23d day of March. ...

Names

  • Flatbush farmer.
  • Childs, Francis, 1763-1830, printer.
  • Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • New-York : Printed by Francis Childs, [1788]

Headings

  • -  United States.--Constitutional Convention--(1787)
  • -  Federal government--United States
  • -  United States--New York--New York

Genre

  • Broadsides--New York (N.Y.)--1788
  • Broadsheet format (Printing)--New York (N.Y.)--1788

Notes

  • -  Signed and dated at the end: A Flat-Bush farmer. Flat-Bush, 21st April, 1788.
  • -  Evans 21502
  • -  Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.

Medium

  • 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 32 x 20 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Const Conv no. 10

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 90898139

Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Flatbush Farmer, Francis Childs, and Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection. To the inhabitants of King's County: Friends and fellow-citizens, you were addressed a few days since, in Dutch, by a person under the signature of a King's County farmer, intended as a reply, to a publication of mine, to you on the 23d day of March. [New-York: Printed by Francis Childs, 1788] Online Text. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/90898139/.

APA citation style:

Flatbush Farmer, Childs, F. & Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection. (1788) To the inhabitants of King's County: Friends and fellow-citizens, you were addressed a few days since, in Dutch, by a person under the signature of a King's County farmer, intended as a reply, to a publication of mine, to you on the 23d day of March. [New-York: Printed by Francis Childs] [Online Text] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/90898139/.

MLA citation style:

Flatbush Farmer, Francis Childs, and Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection. To the inhabitants of King's County: Friends and fellow-citizens, you were addressed a few days since, in Dutch, by a person under the signature of a King's County farmer, intended as a reply, to a publication of mine, to you on the 23d day of March. [New-York: Printed by Francis Childs, 1788] Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/90898139/>.