A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America
Subtitle: containing ...
By: by William Douglass, M.D.
Series: Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Publisher: printed [s.n.]; re-printed for R. Baldwin
Published: 1755
Place of publication: Boston, New-England; London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Colonies; Discovery and exploration; History; Administration; Smallpox
Notes: The subtitle of the two volumes specifying the contents of each varies accordingly.

Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, April 1750-Aug. (?) 1752, but not printed in the "American magazine" as first announced by the publisher; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752.

At end of table of contents of v. 1 is printed the direction "Place the map to face the title of vol. I"; the three maps described in the Introduction to v. 2, p. 20-21 ("originals composed and lately printed in the several countries"), however, are wanting in this ed.

The second volume ends at p. 416 (end of section XVI, Virginia); in a re-issue [1758?] of v. 2, with t.-p. "Boston ...1753" prefixed, pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London 1757") [i.e. the 6th ed. 1758, events to Nov. 1758 being included].

"A digression concerning the smallpox": v. 2, p. 392-414.

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