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 Microform
Publication Info[Salem, Mass.] : [Printed by Samuel Hall], [1771]
Description1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) ; 35 x 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 42282
Early 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
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42282).