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NOVANGLUS,
AND
MASSACHUSETTENSIS;
OR
POLITICAL ESSAYS,
PUBLISHED
IN THE YEARS 1774 AND 1775,
ON THE PRINCIPAL POINTS OF CONTROVERSY, BETWEEN GREAT
BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES.
THE FORMER BY
JOHN ADAMS,
LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES;
THE LATTER BY
JONATHAN SEWALL,
THEN KING’S ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED
A NUMBER OF LETTERS, LATELY WRITTEN BY
PRESIDENT ADAMS,
TO
THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM TUDOR;
SOME OF WHICH WERE NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
BOSTON:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HEWS & GOSS,
1819.
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT,
District Clerk’s Office.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirtieth day of March, A. D. 1819,and of the Forty-fourth Year of the Independence of the UnitedStates of America, HEWS & GOSS, of the said District, have depositedin this Office, the title of a Book, the Right whereof they claimas Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:—"Novanglus andMassachusettensis; or Political Essays, published in the years 1774and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between GreatBritain and her colonies. The former by John Adams, late Presidentof the United States; the latter by Jonathan Sewall, then king'sAttorney General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. To which areadded a number of letters, lately written by President Adams, to theHon. William Tudor; some of which were never before published."
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States,entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing theCopies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors ofsuch Copies, du