Smith, William:

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THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK, FROM THE FIRST DISCOVERY, TO WHICH IS ANNEXED A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, AN ACCOUNT OF THE INHABITANTS, THEIR TRADE, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL STATE, AND THE ... Second edition of the first history of New York up to 1736, first printed in London in 1757. Based largely on the works of Charlevoix and Colden's History of the Five Nations...., Smith also drew from the journals of the Assembly and the Legislative Council. A Loyalist during the Revolution, Smith moved to Canada at the war's conclusion, and there became a chief justice. This history covers the period up to 1736. Smith wrote a continuation which remained in manuscript form until it was published by the New-York Historical Society in 1826. "Within the period subsequent to the English Revolution, Smith is still without a successful rival. This work ranks with Stith's Virginia and Hutchinson's Massachusetts, as one of the worthiest examples of historical literature produced in later colonial times" - Larned.

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