TY - GEN
AU - Massachusetts Bible Society
TI - At the present period it is not desirable to multiply appeals to the charitable feelings of the community but a painful circumstance, connected with the war in which we are involved, has imposed on us an obligation, which, as Christians and Americans, we should be anxious to discharge. It is generally known, that a number of the Bibles bearing the stamp of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and designed for charitable distribution in the neighbouring British provinces, were taken by an American privateer and sold at public auction
PB - [s.n]
KW - British and Foreign Bible Society
KW - Massachusetts Bible Society
KW - Bible Publication and distribution Societies, etc
KW - Bible Publication and distribution North America
KW - Privateering
KW - United States History War of 1812 Prizes, etc
KW - United States History War of 1812 Religious aspects
PY - 1813
N2 - Appeal for contributions to replace the Bibles, "computed at about six hundred dollars ... By a vote of the 'Bible Society of Massachusetts' this subscription is opened. Boston, July 17th, 1813
N2 - Shaw & Shoemaker, 27937
BT - Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
CY - Boston
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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