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The Independent reflector: or, Weekly essays on sundry important subjects.

Format Electronic, Book, and Journal
Publication InfoNew York [New York] : printed (until tyrannically suppressed), 1752-1753.
Description1 volume ; 2⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorLivingston, William, 1723-1790 [Preface to:]The Independent reflector: or, Weekly essays on sundry important subjects.
Other author/creatorLivingston, William, 1723-1790 editor.
Other author/creatorScott, John Morin, 1730-1784, editor.
Other author/creatorSmith, William, 1759-1771, editor.
Other author/creatorParker, James, 1714-1770 attributed name.
General noteEditors: William Livingston, John M. Scott, Wm. Smith, jr. Editorship also sometimes attributed to the printer of the Reflector: James Parker.
General noteTitle page and prefatory material also issued separately (cf. Evans, 7041)
General notePreface signed: The independent reflector. New-York, January 19th. 1753. Dated in error; correct year: 1754. Attributed to William Livingston, one of the editors of the Independent reflector, by Evans.
General noteNote below title: "More particularly adapted to the province of New-York."
General noteWith printer's ornaments above imprint.
General noteIncludes collected essays on politics, government, the judicial system, relations with native people, civil reform, and similar topics. Evidently controversial, the publication ceased as a result of attacks on the editors for their opinions.
General noteReproduction of original from Library of Congress.
References Evans, 3:7042
References English Short Title Catalog, P2805.
Special numberingVolume lacks designation; dates of coverage from individual weekly issues.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Title history noteCollects, with added prefatory material, weekly numbers of: The Independent reflector, and its companion publication, The Occasional reverberator.
Genre/formPeriodicals New York 18th century.
Contains title Independent reflector.
Contains title Occasional reverberator.

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