Minutes of a conspiracy against the liberties of America.
Contributors: Wightman, William.
Series: Eyewitness accounts of the American Revolution
Publisher: New York times
Published: 1969
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Hickey Plot, 1776; New Jersey -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Journals, minutes, etc
Work titles: Minutes of the trial and examination of certain persons, in the province of New York.
Notes: RNJ 78352

Reprint of the 1865 ed.

Originally published, London, Printed for J. Bew, 1776 (and reprinted by him in 1786) under title: Minutes of the trial and examination of certain persons, in the province of New York, charged with being engaged in a conspiracy against the authority of the Congress and the liberties of America. The reprint of 1786, incl. t.p., is here given, with introd. and notes added.

An account of the so-called Hickey plot, formed during the American occupation of New York City in 1776. "The whole publication is a clumsy Tory forgery." P. L. Ford The true George Washington. Philadelphia, 1896, p. 107.

Preface of the reprint signed: W. (i.e. William Wightman?)