Titles by Pelatiah Webster

1725 – 1795

Pelatiah Webster was a Philadelphia merchant, and author of a number of pamphlets on the finances and government of the United States, most of which he reprinted in his “Political Essays” in Philadelphia in 1791.

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Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money

Pelatiah Webster

Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States 1787-1788

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