The independent Whig
Subtitle: or, A defence of primitive Christianity, and of our ecclesiastical establishment, against the exorbitant claims and encroachments of fanatical and disaffected clergymen
Contributors: Gordon, Thomas, d. 1750, ed; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Boston Public Library) John Adams Library
Edition: 5th edition. With additions and amendments.
Publisher: Printed for J. Peele ..., sold by J. Osborn
Published: 1732
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Other titles: Defence of primitive Christianity, and of our ecclesiastical establishment ...
Notes: A reprint of the work originally published as a weekly periodical, ed. by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. The first collected edition, 1721, contains 53 numbers, dated from Jan. 20, 1720, to Jan. 4, 1720 [O.S.]. Other papers were added by Thomas Gordon in later editions, increasing the work to 4 volumes.

Pagination and register of first two volumes are continuous.

Includes index.

Publisher's advertisements, [4] p. at end.

John Adams Library includes V. III, the third edition, dated MDCCDII (misprint, likely dated 1752).

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

John Adams Library copy inscribed in various places, v. 1-2: "Benja. Bradstreet, 1734 ... Now Samuel Flumer's 1765."

John Adams Library copy inscribed on last leaf, v. 1: "Finished Sunday May 7th, 1820."

John Adams Library copy v. 2: front flyleaf detached from binding and inscribed "Liber Ben. Bradstreet, ex dono from G. Beard -- 1734."  Item removed and stored separately (Mss. Adams 478 (2)).

John Adams Library copy: minor annotations.

ESTC, N7107 (v. 1-2)

ESTC, N7127 (v. 3)

Also available on microfilm (v. 1-2). Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1989. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3334, no.9).

Also available on microfilm (v. 3). Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1270, no. 13).

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.