An oration on the beauties of liberty, or The essential rights of the Americans.
Subtitle: Delivered at the Second Baptist-Church in Boston, upon the last annual thanksgiving, Dec. 3d, 1772. Dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Dartmouth. : Published by the earnest request of many.
By: By a British Bostonian.
Contributors: Skillman, Isaac, 1740-1799.; Dartmouth, William Legge, Earl of, 1731-1801, dedicatee.
Edition: The fourth edition, carefully corrected by the author, in which are many additions, particularly those four pages which were left out of the last editions. With some strictures on the eternal right of mankind, liberty of conscience. And remarks on the rights and liberties of the Africans, inserted by particular desire.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 13018.
Publisher: Printed and sold by E. Russell, next the cornfield, Union-Street, near the market.
Published: 1773
Place of publication: Boston: N.E
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Liberty.; Liberty of conscience.; Slavery -- United States.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Addresses, sermons, etc.
Other titles: Essential rights of the Americans.
Notes: Half-title: An oration on the beauties of liberty.

Attributed to Isaac Skillman by Evans. Attributed to John Allen in: Bumstead, John M. "New England's Tom Paine: John Allen and the spirit of liberty" William and Mary Quarterly 21 (1964): [561]-570.

Edition statement transposed; precedes "By a British Bostonian." on title page.

Signatures: [A]þ́ B-Kþ́.

Evans 13018.

Adams, T.R.  Amer. pamphlets, 91d.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 13018)