A few observations on the government of Rhode Island, &c.

by a citizen by Benjamin Cowell

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Providence: John Carter, November, 1807. First edition, 8vo, pp. 18; stitched, as issued; half-title and last leaf detached, but present; some fraying. Cowell graduated from Brown in 1803, was a clerk of the Federal courts and for a time Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1850 he published The Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island. Here, he writes: The Charter granted by Charles II is generally considered Rhode Island's foundation ... Without therefore

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