May 17, 2007

Item of the Day: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)

Full Title:  Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies.  Boston:  Printed by Mein and Fleeming, and to be sold by John Mein, at the London Book-Store, Northside of King-Street. MDCCLXVIII.
LETTERS FROM A FARMER.
LETTER I.
My dear Countrymen,
I am a Farmer, settled after a variety of fortunes, near the banks, of [...]