A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America
Subtitle: with some transient accounts of the bordering French and Spanish Settlements
By: By W. D., M.D.
Publisher: Rogers and Fowle
Published: 1747
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: History
Notes: Original edition; first announced to appear serially in the publishers' "American magazine and historical chronicle", but issued separately in numbers of 16 pages of text each with cover-title, and book announcements, "errata" notes, etc. on the other pages of the covers: v. 1, no. 1-36, March (?) 1747-May 1749; v. 2, no. 1-26 (?) 1750-1752. Titles and imprints vary slightly; the author's name indicated on the earlier numbers by the initials W. D. M. D. appears in full on no. 27 and the numbers following. Left unfinished at author's death October 1752; reissued in two volumes 1749-[1752]; and with additions (v. 2, p. 417-440 "from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757") Boston 1749-1753 [i.e. 1758]; London, 1755; London, 1760. cf. Evans, v. 2, no. 5936, 6126, 6306, 6490, and v. 3, 6662.

v. 1, no. 1-33, 35-36 and v. 2, no. 1-22 appear on this film.