Essays upon the making of salt-petre and gun-powder / [compiled by Thomas Tredwell] ; published by order of the Committee of Safety of the colony of New York.

Author/creator New York (State).
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew-York : Printed by Samuel London, 1776.
Description39 p. : 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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Other author/creatorTredwell, Thomas, 1743-1831.
Other author/creatorVan Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814.
Other author/creatorHancock, John, 1737-1793.
Other author/creatorWhiting, William, 1730-1792.
Other author/creatorGovett, William.
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
Partial contents In Committee of Safety during the recess of the Provincial Congress, January 17th, 1776 -- In Congress, Philadelphia, July 18, 1775 -- Method of making salt-petre at Hanover, 1766 -- The process for extracting and refining salt-petre according to the method practised at the provincial works in Philadelphia -- Experiments made by Capt. Pryor and Mr. Thomas Pain for the purpose of fixing some easy, cheap, and expeditious method of making salt-petre in private families in order to shew the practicability of a plan proposed by Mr. Pain of forming a salt-petre association for voluntarily supplying the public magazines with gun-powder -- An excellent method of making gun-powder.
Local noteLibrary's copy is defective and imperfect: p. 37-39 wanting; pages stained, marked up and annotated in ms. A ms. note on the t.p. states: "3000 copies printed."
General noteReproduction of original from Huntington Library.
General noteSabin no. 22988.
References RLIN, CTRG03-B992
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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