General meeting
Subtitle: A general meeting of the Federal Republicans of the city, is earnestly requested to be held at the Tontine Coffeehouse, this evening at 7 o'clock, to take into consideration the present defenceless state of our harbour, already stained with the blood of one of our fellow-citizens. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 10400
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1806
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Coast defenses; Fortification; Harbors; Foreign relations; Defenses; Federal Party (N.Y.)
Notes: The meeting was held in response to the outrage committed at the entrance to New York harbor by the British warship Leander firing upon the American sloop Richard, a commercial coasting vessel, killing seaman John Pearce.

Dated: April 26, 1806.

Shaw & Shoemaker 10400

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