A letter from a Romish priest in Canada
Subtitle: to one who was taken captive in her infancy, and instructed in the Romish faith, but some time ago returned to this her native country. : With an answer thereto, by a person to whom it was communicated
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 3216
Publisher: Printed for D. Henchman, at the corner shop over against the brick meeting house in Corn-Hill.
Published: 1729
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Doctrines; Controversial literature; Popes; Temporal power; Early works to 1800; Reformation; Catholic Church
Description: The "captive" was a girl named Christina, taken in a raid on Dover, N.H., June 28, 1689, known later as Mrs. Margaret Otis Baker, after her escape in 1714. The "answer" is by Gov. Burnet of Massachusetts. Seguenot was a priest in the Montreal Seminary. (ACHR, 26, 269; J.G. Shea, in ACQ, 6 (1881), 216 ff.) cf. Parsons, W. Catholic Americana, 1.
Notes: Signed on p. 13: Seguenot priest of the seminary at Ville-Marie ... the 5th. of June 1727. "The answer," p. 14-26, is by William Burnet, and is dated: Boston, January 8th. 1728,9. Cf. Parsons.

Signatures: pi1 A-C⁴ D².

Evans 3216

Parsons, W. Catholic Americana, 1

Shipton & Mooney (2nd ed.) 3216