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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF REMARKABLE EVENTS. - Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances and Other Subjects
A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF REMARKABLE EVENTS. - Pelatiah Webster, Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances and Other Subjects [1791]Edition used:Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money, Public Finances and Other Subjects, published during the American War, and continued up to the present Year, 1791 (Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1791).
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- Preface of the Author.
- An Essay On the Danger of Too Much Circulating Cash In a State, the Ill Consequences Thence Arising, and the Necessary Remedies. [ Published In the Pennsylvania Evening Post of Oct. 5, 1776, Under the Signature of a Financier. ]
- An Essay On Free Trade and Finance. First Published In Philadelphia, July 1779, and Dedicated to Congress.
- A Second Essay On Free Trade and Finance. First Published In Philadelphia, August 1779, and Dedicated to the Several Legislatures of the American Union.
- A Third Essay On Free Trade and Finance. [ Published In Philadelphia, January 8 Th, 1780.]
- A Fourth Essay On Free Trade and Finance. First Published In Philadelphia, February 10, 1780.
- A Fifth Essay On Free Trade and Finance. First Published In Philadelphia, March 30, 1780.
- Strictures On Tender-acts. * [ First Published In Philadelphia, Dec. 13, 1780.]
- An Essay Or Humble Attempt to Examine and State the True Interest of Pennsylvania With Respect to the Paper Currency. [ First Published In Philadelphia, Dec. 13, 1780.]
- An Essay On the Economy, Policy, and Resources of the Thirteen States, and the Means of Their Preservation. [ First Published In Philadelphia , In January 1781.]
- A Dissertation On the Nature, Authority, and Uses of the Office of a Financier-general, Or Superintendant of the Finances. [ First Published In Philadelphia, Jan. 24, 1781.]
- Remarks On the Resolution of Council, of the 2 D of May, 1781, For Raising the Exchange to 175 Continental Dollars For 1 Hard. Humbly Offered to the Public. [ First Published In Philadelphia, May 9, 1781.]
- Strictures On a Publication In the Freeman’s Journal of May 16, 1781, Signed Timoleon. * [ First Published In Philadelphia, May 23, 1781.]
- Strictures On Two Publications In the Freeman’s Journal of May 30, 1781, Signed Phocion, and Impartial. * [ First Published In Philadelphia, May 23, 1781.]
- A Dissertation On the Political Union and Constitution of the Thirteen United States of North-america, Which Is Necessary to Their Preservation and Happiness; Humbly Offered to the Public. * [ First Published In Philadelphia, 1783.]
- A Sixth Essay On Free Trade and Finance. Particularly Showing What Supplies of Public Revenue May Be Drawn From Merchandise, Without Injuring Our Trade, Or Burdening Our People.
- A Seventh Essay On Free Trade and Finance; In Which the Expediency of Funding the Public Securities; Striking Further Sums of Paper Money, and Other Important Matters, Are Considered. * [ First Published In Philadelphia, Jan. 10, 1785.]
- A Plea For the Poor Soldiers: Or, an Essay to Demonstrate That the Soldiers and Other Public Creditors, Who Really and Actually Supported the Burden of the Late War, Have Not Been Paid, Ought to Be Paid, Can Be Paid, and Must Be Paid. [ Fir
- A Review of the Principles and Arguments of the Two Foregoing Essays, Viz. the Seventh Essay On Finance, and the Plea For the Poor Soldiers; With Some Observations On the Finances of the Union.
- An Essay On the Seat of the Federal Government, and the Exclusive Jurisdiction of Congress Over a Ten Miles District; With Observations On the Economy and Delicate Morals Necessary to Be Observed In Infant States. [ First Published In Philadelphia, Sep
- Remarks On the Address of Sixteen Members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania, to Their Constituents, Dated September 29, 1787. With Some Strictures On Their Objections to the Constitution Recommended By the Late Federal Convention. * [ First Publish
- The Weaknesses of Brutus Exposed: Or, Some Remarks In Vindication of the Constitution Proposed By the Late Federal Convention, Against to Objections and Gloomy Fears of That Writer. [ First Published In Philadelphia, Nov. 4, 1787.]
- An Essay On Credit: In Which the Doctrine of Banks Is Considered, and Some Remarks Are Made On the Present State of the Bank of North-america. [ First Published In Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1786.]
- Strictures On the Net Produce of the Taxes of Great-britain, In the Year 1784, As Published By Order of Their House of Commons. [ First Published In Philadelphia, Aug. 4, 1785.]
- An Essay On Test-acts Imposed With Penalties. * [ First Published In Philadelphia, Sept. 12, 1781.]
- An Essay On the Extent and Value of Our Western Unlocated Lands, and the Proper Method of Disposing of Them, So As to Gain the Greatest Possible Advantage From Them. [ First Published In Philadelphia, April 25, 1781.]
- Scales of Depreciation of Continental Money.
- A Chronological Table of Remarkable Events.
A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF REMARKABLE EVENTS.
| AMERICA first discovered by Columbus in the year of our Lord, | 1492 | | North-America discovered by Cabot, | 1499 | | Penn’s charter for Pennsylvania, | 1680 | | American Philosophical Society established, | 1762 | | Tea destroyed at Boston, | Dec. 16, 1773 | | Boston port shut, | June 1, 1774 | | First Congress met at Philadelphia, | Sept. 5, — | | Battle of Lexington, | April 19, 1775 | | First emission of Continental money, | May 10, — | | Gen. Washington appointed, | June, — | | Battle at Bunker’s-hill, | June 17, — | | Charlestown (Massachusetts) burnt, | June 17, — | | Falmouth burnt, | Oct. 18, — | | Canada invaded by the Americans, | — | | Gen. Montgomery fell, | Dec. 31, — | | Norfolk burnt, | Jan. 1776 | | Boston evacuated by the British, | March 17, — | | Siege of Quebec raised, | May, — | | Battle at Sulivan’s Island, | June 28, — | | Declaration of independence, | July 4, — | | Canada evacuated by the Americans, | — | | Battle on Long-Island, | Aug. 27, — | | New-York taken by the British, | Sept. 15, — | | Battle of White-plains, | Oct. 28, — | | New-Jersey over-run by the British, | Dec. 14, — | | General Washington took 900 Hessians at Trenton, | Dec. 26, — | | Battle of Princeton, | Jan. 3, 1777 | | Battle of Brandywine, | Sept. 11, — | | Wilmington (Delaware) taken, | Sept. 19, — | | Battle of Benington, | Sept. — | | Philadelphia taken, | Sept. 27, 1777 | | Battle of Germantown, | Oct. 4, — | | Burgoyne taken by Gen. Gates, | Oct. 17, — | | Esopus burnt, | Oct. — | | Treaty with France, | Feb. 6, 1778 | | The British commence hostilitics with France, | June 17, — | | Philadelphia evacuated by the British, | June 18, — | | Battle of Monmouth, | June 28, — | | Savanna taken, | Sept. 29, — | | Stony-point taken by Gen. Wayne, | July 16, 1779 | | New-Haven taken, | July — | | Spain begins a war with Britain, | July 16, — | | Fairfield burnt, | July — | | Charlestown (S. Carolina) taken, | May 12, 1780 | | French army arrives at Rhode-Island, | July 10, — | | Battle of Camden, | Aug. 16, — | | Britain declares war against Holland, | Dec. 20, — | | Wilmington (N. Carolina) taken, | Jan. 1781 | | Articles of Consederation finally ratified, | Mar. 1, — | | Continental money ceased to circulate as cash, | May — | | Battle of Eutaw Springs, | Sept. 8, — | | New-London burnt, | Sept. 13, — | | Wilmington (N. Carolina) evacuated, | Oct. — | | Cornwallis surrendered, | Oct. 19, — | | Savanna evacuated, | July 11, 1782 | | Charlestown (S. Carolina) evacuated, | Dec. 14, — | | Preliminary treaty signed, | Jan. 20, 1783 | | Treaty with Sweden, | April 3, — | | The first air-balloon let off by M. Montgolfier at Paris, | Aug. 27, — | | Desinitive treaty of peace ratified, | Sept. 3, — | | New-York evacuated, | Nov. 25, — | | The American army disbanded: Gen. Washington resigns his commission, | Dec. — | | Convention met for revising the Federal Government of the United States of America, | May 25, 1787 | | Finished their deliberations on a plan of government for the United States of America, and published the same, | Sept. 17, — | | First Congress under the New Constitution met at New-York, | Mar. 4, 1788 | | And, after two long sessions, adjourned to Philadelphia; the first session at which place was, | Dec. 4, 1790 |
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