Author: Brooks, Erastus; et al
Title: First Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, / with Address by Hon. Erastus Brooks, Colonel Dawson, and Others. / Held at Newburgh, N.Y. , Feb. 22d, 1884
Description: Newburgh, NY: E. M. Ruttenber & Son, Book and Job Printers, 1884. 1884. Newburgh, NY: E. M. Ruttenber & Son, Book and Job Printers, 1884. 1884. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed brown wraps. The wraps are bumped, soiled & chipped with a few small stains. There is a piece out of the top edge of the front wrap & its bottom corner is stained & creased. 20 pages. There is a small stain to the top edge of the title & a piece out of its bottom corner, else the contents are very good.

The introductory note states that "the exercises [at the First Annual Meeting] were mainly commemorative of the birthday of Washington", and the addresses in this pamphlet concern Washington, the Revolutionary War and slavery in the colonies. Very good .

Keywords: NEW YORK STATE; UPSTATE NEW YORK; HUDSON VALLEY; NEWBURGH, N.Y.; FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEWBURGH BAY AND THE HIGHLANDS; ERASTUS BROOKS; COLONEL DAWSON; GEORGE WASHINGTON; REVOLUTIONARY WAR; SLAVERY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENT

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