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Title:
  • Providence, Monday, February 5, 1770. The inhabitants of this town and county are desired to meet at the Court-House this afternoon, at two o'clock, to hear and consider of some effectual plan for establishing the college here.
Call No:
  • G1157
  • Broadsides 1770 No.4
Summary note:
  • Refers to a plan to permanently locate Rhode Island College (later Brown University) in Providence.
Subjects:
Author:
Imprint Place:
  • Providence :
Publisher/Printer:
  • John Carter,
Imprint Date:
  • 1770
Physical Description:
  • 1 sheet ([1] p.)
  • 14 x 23 cm.
Bibliographic References:
  • Alden, J.E. Rhode Island,
  • Winship Bristol
  • 453
  • p.26 3158
Notes:
  • "Providence: Printed by John Carter, at Shakespeare's Head; where Advertisements, Shop-Bills, &c. are done in a neat and correct Manner, at a very short Notice."
  • Two known copies held by the Rhode Island Historical Society and the John Carter Brown Library.
  • Refers to a plan to permanently locate Rhode Island College (later Brown University) in Providence.
  • RIHS copy has manuscript on reverse: "At a Meeting of a great number of the Subscibers of the College to be erected in Providence convened at the Court House in Providence on Monday the 5th of Jan. 1770. Honb. Stephen Hopkins Esq. chosen as moderator. John Cole & Moses Brown continued a committee..."
  • Preservation and electronic cataloging for this broadside was made possible by a generous grant from the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Rhode Island Society of Colonial Wars, the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and the General Society of Colonial Wars.
Location:
  • RHI9
  • MARC Values:

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