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Title: A True and impartial state of the province of Pennsylvania: containing, an exact account of the nature of its government: the power of the proprietaries, and their governors: as well as those which they derive under the royal grant, as those they have assumed in manifest violation thereof, their father's charter, and the rights of the people ...: the whole being a full answer to the pamphlets intitled A brief state, and A brief view, &c. of the conduct of Pennsylvania.Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP00604900CollectionID: CTRG10180146-BPublicationDate: 17590101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin. The two pamphlets mentioned are by William Smith. Error in paging: page numbers 79 and 80 repeated. In some copies, p. 31 is numbered "[31["; in others, "[31]." Errata."--p. 173. "An appendix to the foregoing work."--34, [2] p. at end.Collation: [2], v, [2], 4-173 [i.e., 4-175], [1], 34, [2] p.; 20 cm. (8vo)
