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- 1737-1925 (Creation)
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14pp
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Transcript of a letter published as Swem, E. G., ed. (1925). Letter of James Murray of New York to Rev. Baptist Boyd of County Tyrone, Ireland, reprinted from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 27 October 1737 (Metuchen, New Jersey: Charles F. Heartman, pp. 2-7).
Per Earl Gregg Swem: ‘This reprint of the letter by James Murray is from the text in number 464 of The Pennsylvania Gazette, bearing the date October 27 to November 3, 1737. The editorial note prefixed to the letter as it is printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette informs us that the letter "is said to have been sent from a person settled in New York, to his countrymen, to encourage them to come over thither," and that it "was printed and dispers'd in Ireland; a copy of which being brought over, in one of the late ships, we present our readers with it."’