• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: 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
  • Contributor: Massachusetts Bible Society
  • imprint: Boston: [s.n], 1813
  • Published in: Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text)
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: British and Foreign Bible Society ; Massachusetts Bible Society ; Bible Publication and distribution Societies, etc ; Bible Publication and distribution North America ; Privateering ; United States History War of 1812 Prizes, etc ; United States History War of 1812 Religious aspects
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  • Footnote: 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
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 27937