Generic names for the country and people of the United States of America
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 4267
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1803
Place of publication: New York?
Language: eng
Subjects: Geographical Names; Geography; Terminology; Onomastics
Notes: Recommending the adoption of the name "Fredon," or the more poetical name "Fredonia," for "the extent of land ceded to our nation by the treaty of 1783," and that the inhabitants be henceforth known and distinguished as "Fredonians" or "Fredes."

Signed: M.

Attributed to Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, of New York, in the National Union Catalog of pre-1956 imprints. Cf. Mitchill's Address to the Fredes ... on the 28th anniversary of their independence (New York, 1804).

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Shaw & Shoemaker 4267

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