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Making people pay [by] Paul Rock.
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Boston, London, Routledge & K. Paul [1973]
1973
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Authentic biography of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky.
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New York : Printed by H. Mason, 1833.
1833
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberAN (Johnson) (Emmons, W. Authentic biography of Colonel Richard M. Johnson) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England and Wales. By James Neild.
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[London] Printed by Nichols and Son, 1802.
1802
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Essays of Howard: or, Tales of the prison. Originally supposed to be written by a debtor, who has been confined for sixteen years in the New-York debtor's jail.
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New-York: Published at the Literary Exchange, C. S. Van Winkle, Printer, 1811.
1811
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Essai sur l'abolition de la contrainte par corps.
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Paris : Cosse, Marchal et Billard ; Bruxelles : Bruylant-Christophe et Cie, 1874.
1874
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberSLO (Hardouin, H. Essai sur l'abolition de la contrainte par corps) | Item locationOffsite |
The right-aim school testament, comprising the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : and an annexment of the preliminary brief of the right-aim school, the declaration of freedebtism, and the free-debt-rules, with some appurtenances, in view of a humble and earnest call on all people to "search the scriptures" and to heed the analogy and application of Freedebtism to religious principle and scripture text : especially to this- "Forgive us our Debts as we forgive our debtors" distinguisched in the Lord's Prayer.
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[Boston : s.n.,] 1834.
1834
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*YCW (Davenport) (Bible. New Testament. English. 1834. Right-aim school Testament) | Item locationOffsite |
The right-aim school Bible; comprising the Holy Bible of the Old and New Testaments, and an annexment containing the free-debt-rule petitions ... Also the declaration of freedebtism ... [by] Rufus Davenport.
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[Boston,] 1834.
1834
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*YCF (Bible. English. 1834. Right-aim school Bible) | Item locationOffsite |
An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England.
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[London] : Printed for the benefit of the charity, 1792.
1792
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An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts.
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London : Printed for the benefit of the charity, 1783.
1783
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The scandal of imprisonment for debt, by J. D. Unwin.
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[London] Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1935.
1935
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTFH (Unwin, J. D. Scandal of imprisonment for debt) | Item locationOffsite |
The act to abolish imprisonment for debt, and to punish fraudulent debtors, commonly called "the Stilwell act," with forms and references to the judicial decisions thereunder. By Hon. David McAdam...
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New York, E.G. Ward, 1880.
1880
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTLV (McAdam, D. Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt) | Item locationOffsite |
Who are the swindlers? : a query / by Miss Robertson of Blackheath.
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London : Printed for the author by J.D. Dewick, [1801?]
1801
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*** A p.v.594 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The prison-house unmasked: in a letter to Her Most Gracious Majesty, shewing that arrest and imprisonment for debt are violtaions of Magna charta, and therefore illegal; and also the cruelty and inutility of the present system. By Runnymede Secundus [pseud.] ...
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London, J. Hatchard & son, 1837.
1837
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*KF 1837 (Runnymede S. Prison-house unmasked) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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Correspondence between H.M.'s minister of foreign relations and the U.S. commissioner, on the case of John Wiley, an American citizen, imprisoned at the instance of Viscount William de la Perrotiere ... a French subject.
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Honolulu, Gov. press, 1845.
1845
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*KF 1845 (Hawaii. Foreign Affairs Department. Correspondence between H.M.'s Minister of Foreign Relations and the U. S...) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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Grocer no. 1. To the Republican electors of the city of New-York, and other worthy citizens.
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[New York, For sale by Christian Brown, 1823?]
1823
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*KF 1823 (Grocer no. 1) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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Little Dorrit / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.
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London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, [1855]-1857
1855-1857
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberArents BIP (Dickens, C. Little 1855) 00-122 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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Speech of Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, on the subject of abolishing imprisonment for debt : Senate of the United States, February 16, 1824.
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[United States : s.n., 1824?]
1824
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Remarks on imprisonment for debt; published at Savannah, in the "Georgian," and now republished in the hope that they may meet the attention of the legislature of Georgia.
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Charleston, A.E. Miller, 1822.
1822-
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTB p.v. 707 no. 1-12 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Proceedings of the citizens of Boston favorable to a revision of the laws in relation to debtor and creditor. At a meeting held at the Exchange Coffee House, Boston, on Wednesday evening April 19, 1829 ...
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[Boston] [Press of Putnam & Hunt] [1829]
1829
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTB p.v. 1209 no. 1-9 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Seven letters to the Lords and Commons of Great Britain, upon the impolicy, inhumanity, and injustice, of our present mode of arresting the bodies of debtors; shewing the inconsistency of it, with Magna charta and a free constitution ... The whole illustrated by a variety of cases, taken from real life. By Josiah Dornford ...
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London, Printed by J. Andrews [1786]
1786
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTB p.v. 1692 no. 1-12 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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A view from the prison : being articles addressed to the editor of the New-Bedford Mercury : and a letter to G.B. Weston, esq., and other directors of the Duxbury Bank. To which are added leaves from a journal / by B. Rodman.
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New-Bedford : Printed by B. Lindsey, 1840.
1840
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTB p.v. 1314 no. 1-8 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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Practical directions and forms, for proceedings under the "Act to abolish imprisonment for debt, and to punish fraudulent debtors" : passed April 26, 1831, with an appendix, containing the Act and copious marginal references / prepared by a Counsellor at Law ...
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Canandaigua [N.Y.] : Morse and Harvey, 1832.
1832
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberTB p.v. 1340 no. 1-6 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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The cry of the oppressed. Being a true and tragical account of the unparallel'd sufferings of multitudes of poor imprisoned debtors, in most of the gaols in England ... Together with the case of the publisher ... Illustrated with copper-plates.
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London, Printed for Moses Pitt, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1691.
1691
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*KC 1691 (Pitt, M. Cry of the oppressed) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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Report on abolishing imprisonment for debt.
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[n.p., 18--?]
18
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Little Dorrit / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.
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London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1857
1857
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberArents BIP (Dickens, C. Little 1857) 00-100 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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Dissertatio juridica de carcere obæratorum vulgò Schuldt-Thurm, quam ... præside Dn. Joh. Friderico Georgi ... publicæ eruditorum disquisitioni submittit Joh. Christoph. Dannhauer.
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Jenæ, Typis Pauli Ehrichii, 1714.
1714
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The petitions of Rufus Davenport [microform] : to the twenty four states, for the adoption of free debt rules ... and the urged abolition of imprisonment for debt : extracted from Gov. Giles' speech to the legislature of Virginia : both dated A.D. 1828, December 1st.
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[Boston : s.n., 1828]
1828
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Załoga w prawie polskiem średniowiecznem.
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Lwów : Nakładem Towarzystwa dla popierania nauki polskiej, 1905.
1905
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number*QPA (Towarzystwo Naukowe we Lwowie. Archivum naukowe ... Dzial 1. [Historyczno-filologiczny] tom.2,zeszyt4) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Notizie statistiche sull' arresto personale per debiti civili e commerciali nel regno d'Italia durante il decennio 1866-75 raccolte per cura del ministro guardasigilli (Mancini) per comunicarsi al Parlamento.
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Roma : Stamperia reale, 1877.
1877
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberXMF++ (Italy. Grazia e giustizia, Ministero di. Notizie statistiche sull' arresto personale per debiti civili e commerciali) | Item locationOffsite |
Imprisonment for debt unconstitutional and oppressive : proved from the fundamental principles of the British Constitution, and the rights of nature / by Edward Farley, Esq.
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London : Printed for the author, and sold by T. Hookham, and all other booksellers ..., 1788.
1788
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberPforz (Farley, E./Imprisonment) 1788 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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The scandal of imprisonment for debt [microform], by J.D. Unwin.
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[London] : Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1935.
1935
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Dans les geôles du roi : l'emprisonnement pour dette à Paris à la fin du Moyen-Âge / Julie Claustre.
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Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007.
2007
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberReCAP 08-18559 | Item locationOffsite |
The Judaic-law : as opposed to English military-law, gaol-for-debt-law, the pauper-law, and factory-slave-law / extracted from the notes to the "Laws of the Hebrews relating to the poor and the stranger" ; translated from the work of the celebrated rabbi, Moses Maimonides.
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[London] : J.H. Starie, [1838?]
1838
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| FormatBook/Text | Call number**P 08-77 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111 |
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Little Dorrit / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.
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London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1857
1857
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Great African films. Vol. 2 : a series of award-winning films from the continent of Africa.
Moving image
New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions ; Chicago, IL : Distributed by Facets Video, [2007]
2007
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| FormatDVD | Call numberSc Visual DVD-57 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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De la contrainte par corps en matière civile et de commerce : commentaire du titre XVI, livre III, du Code civil / par M. Troplong ; ouvrage qui fait suite à celui de M. Toullier, mais dans lequel on a adopté la forme plus commode du commentaire.
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Paris : Charles Hingray, 1847.
1847
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| FormatBook/Text | Call numberXHI (Troplong, R. T. Droit civil. De la contrainte par corps en matière civile. 1847) | Item locationOffsite |
An appeal to the inhabitants of Her Majesty's Canadian provinces against the law authorizing imprisonment for debt in Canada West [electronic resource] / by Sylvester Brown.
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[Rochester, N.Y.?] : The Author, 1859.
1859
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Memorial of Benjamin Rodman to the Senate and House of Representatives of Massachusetts in General Court assembled [electronic resource].
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[New Bedford, Mass. : s.n., 1841]
1841
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Report of the Visitors of the Jail of Baltimore City and County [electronic resource].
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[Baltimore, Md.? : s.n., 1839]
1839
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The debtors' prison [electronic resource] : a tale of a revolutionary soldier / [by Asa Greene].
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New-York : A. Greene, 1834.
1834
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The petitions of Rufus Davenport to the twenty four states for the adoption of the free debt rules [electronic resource] ; also, the rise and progress, the ursurped dominion and the urged abolition of imprisonment for debt, extracted from Gov[ernor] Giles' speech to the Legislature of Virginia, both dated A.D. 1828, December 1st.
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[Boston? : R. Davenport?, 1829]
1829
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The patriot, or, People's companion [electronic resource] : consisting of five essays on the laws and politics of our country / by One of the people.
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Hudson [N.Y.] : Printed by A. Stoddard, 1828.
1828
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Essays on imprisonment for debt [electronic resource] / by Charles Spear.
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Hartford [Conn.] : B. Sperry, printer, 1833.
1833
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An act to abolish imprisonment for debt and to punish fradulent debtors [electronic resource] : passed April 26, 1831 : also, a synopsis of the same / by S.M. Stilwell.
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New-York : Printed and published by Elliott and Palmer, 1831.
1831
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Proceedings of the citizens of Boston favorable to a revision of the laws in relation to debtor and creditor [electronic resource].
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[Boston : Press of Putnam & Hunt, 1829]
1829
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Authentic biography of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky [electronic resource].
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New York : Printed by H. Mason, 1833.
1833
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A voice from the prison [electronic resource] : being articles addressed to the editor of the New-Bedford Mercury : and a letter to G.B. Weston, esq., and other directors of the Duxbury bank : to which are added leaves from a journal / by B. Rodman ...
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New-Bedford : Printed by B. Lindsey, 1840.
1840
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English slave trade! [electronic resource] : petition on the injustice, inhumanity, impolicy and illegality of imprisonment for debt, and on the grievances of the King's Bench Prison presented by Lord Holland and Samuel Whitbread, Esq., to the Houses of Lords and Commons November 25th and December 10th, 1813 : with remarks / by W.J. Baldwin.
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[England : s.n.], 1813
1813
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPLOliver Pollock papers, 1767-1788 [electronic resource].
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1767-1823.
1767-1823
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