Description: The Text-Book of the Washington Benevolent Society...Concord {New Hampshire} 1812.Membership certificate finished in ink for Lasel Silsby this certifies that Lasel Silsby has been regularly admitted a member of the Washington Benevolent Society instituted in the City of New York on the twelfth day of July 1808 and established at Acworth in the county of Cheshire Twelfth day of January 1813.Signed Edward Slader, President and Samuel Lincoln, Secretary.The Washington Benevolent Societies were grass-roots political clubs with a semi secret membership; set up 1808-1816 by the Federalist Party in the U.S. to electioneer for votes. As shown on the membership certificates printed within copies of "Washington's Farewell Address" that were issued to members, the first of these societies was "instituted in the City of New York, on the 12th day of July, 1808.The Text-Book of the Washington Benevolent Society containing a biography and character of George Washington... his farewell address to the people of the United States and the federal Constitution with the amendments... with portrait of George Washington as frontispiece “his path be ours”Published by George Hough.Publisher George HOUGH (1757 - 1830) was a private in the New Haven Alarm on 9 July 1779. George became a printer who moved to Vermont and started The Vermont Journal in 1783. He later moved to Concord, NH, and started the first paper there, The Concord Herald, in 1787. He published that paper through 1805.Pocket sized. Measures about 3 1/4” by 5 1/2”, 106 pages collated and completeMarbled paper covered boards extending to leather spine with gold spine titles; edge worn with surface abrasions at the edges; hinges are strong, binding is tight, book lays flat. Pages are toned and foxed. Frontispiece of Washington. interior clean and unmarked Handling Fee covers the insurance on this package via USPS Media Mail
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Concord New Hampshire
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition
Region: North America
Publisher: George Hough
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Historical
Subject: Americana
Modified Item: No
Year Printed: 1812
Original/Facsimile: Original
