To the printer in Essex.
Subtitle: As I have met with what I call hard treatment ... I now intreat an appeal to the publick in your next news-paper ..
Contributors: Hall, Samuel, 1740-1807.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42282.
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Hall
Published: 1771
Place of publication: [Salem, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Claims against decedents' estates -- Massachusetts.; Debtor and creditor -- Massachusetts.
Notes: Concerning a debt owed by David H. and the problems in collecting that debt from Sarah H., administratrix of David's estate.

Signed on p. [2]: An enemy to unfaithfulness and deceit, and a lover of justice, and all that sincerely aim at it. Attributed by Bristol to Francis Symonds, a Danvers, Mass., innkeeper.

Dated May 1771 by Ford. Presumably addressed to Samuel Hall, printer of the Essex gazette, Salem, Mass., and the only printer active in Essex County at this time. Border ornament (Reilly 542) is identified as one used by Hall in 1771.

Bristol B3392.

Shipton & Mooney 42282.

Ford, W.C.  Broadsides, 1599.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 42282)