A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America.
By: By William Douglass.
Contributors: Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed and Sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen street
Published: 1758
Place of publication: Boston, New-England
Language: eng
Subjects: Smallpox -- Early works to 1800.; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 6307
Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, April 1750-Aug. (?) 1752; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752.
The subtitle of the 2 volumes specifying the content varies accordingly.
Vol. 2 has imprint: Boston, New-England: Printed and Sold by D. Fowle in Ann-Street, faceing the Town-Dock, 1753.  Appended to this volume are p. 417-440, with caption, "Thus far was wrote by Dr. Douglass ... he died in 1752.--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]
The three maps described in the Introduction to v. 2, p. 20-21 ("Originals composed and lately printed in the several countries") are wanting in this copy and in all L. C. copies of different editions of the "Summary"; the "Map of the Dominions of New-England", and that of "New York, the Jersies and Pennsylvania, published 1749, by Mr. Evans in Pennsylvania", are found separately in the map collection of the Library of Congress.
"A digression concerning the smallpox": v. 2, p. 392-414.