New-Haven remonstrance
Subtitle: Together with an exposition of the remonstrants; or a curiosity for the curious. : [Three lines from the Holy Writ and two lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 30925
Publisher: Printed for Peter Porcupine, on the King's birth day.
Published: 1814
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Political Patronage; Political corruption; Customs administration; Officials and employees; Politics and government; New Haven remonstrance
Other titles: New Haven remonstrance.; Public documents--no. I.
Notes: At head of title: Public documents--no. I.

The New-Haven remonstrance, published originally in the Connecticut courant and five other newspapers on July 27, 1801, protested against the appointment of Samuel Bishop to replace Elizur Goodrich as collector for the port of New Haven. Signed on p. 6: Jeremiah Atwater, Elias Shipman, Abraham Bradley, Abel Aurritt, and others to the number of eighty persons. Attributed to Noah Webster in Skeel, E.E. A bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster, 1958, p. 522-523.

Includes also President Jefferson's reply dated July 12, 1801, and a criticism of the remonstrants by Abraham Bishop originally published in the Sun of liberty, Sept. 9, 1801.

"To the public" (p. 24) signed: Peter Porcupine [i.e., William Cobbett] London, August 11, 1814.

Cited as a New Haven imprint in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. 24.

Shaw & Shoemaker 30925

Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 67

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