To the printer in Essex : As I have met with what I call hard treatment ... I now intreat an appeal to the publick in your next news-paper.

Author/creator Symonds, Francis
Other author Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807.
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Salem, Mass.] : [Printed by Samuel Hall], [1771]
Description1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) ; 35 x 22 cm
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 42282. ^A478749
General noteConcerning a debt owed by David H. and the problems in collecting that debt from Sarah H., administratrix of David's estate.
General noteSigned on p. [2]: An enemy to unfaithfulness and deceit, and a lover of justice, and all that sincerely aim at it. Attributed by Bristol to Francis Symonds, a Danvers, Mass., innkeeper.
General noteDated May 1771 by Ford. Presumably addressed to Samuel Hall, printer of the Essex gazette, Salem, Mass., and the only printer active in Essex County at this time. Border ornament (Reilly 542) is identified as one used by Hall in 1771.
References Bristol B3392
References Shipton & Mooney 42282
References Ford, W.C. Broadsides, 1599
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42282).