To the public
Subtitle: Injustice, under whatever form it makes it's appearance, ought to be detected and punished. But when the authority of an office is made use of to oppress the poor ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 41388
Publisher: Printed by William Goddard
Published: 1763
Place of publication: Providence
Language: eng
Subjects: Taxation; Politics and government; Officials and employees
Notes: Charging George Taylor, attorney for the colony of Rhode Island, and John Foster, clerk, with malfeasance in the taxing of bills of credit against the county of Providence.

Signed and dated: Providence, April 2, 1763. Esek Hopkins. In his reply, Bristol B244, Taylor says of Hopkins "... all who know him, know also he never wrote it ..." but he does not name those whom he suspects of acting through Hopkins.

William Goddard was the only printer active at Providence in 1763.

Bristol B2413

Shipton & Mooney 41388

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 278