At head of title: Public documents--no. I.

The New-Haven remonstrance, published originally in the Connecticut courant and five other newspapers on July 27, 1801, protested against the appointment of Samuel Bishop to replace Elizur Goodrich as collector for the port of New Haven. Signed on p. 6: Jeremiah Atwater, Elias Shipman, Abraham Bradley, Abel Aurritt, and others to the number of eighty persons. Attributed to Noah Webster in Skeel, E.E. A bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster, 1958, p. 522-523.

Includes also President Jefferson's reply dated July 12, 1801, and a criticism of the remonstrants by Abraham Bishop originally published in the Sun of liberty, Sept. 9, 1801.

"To the public" (p. 24) signed: Peter Porcupine [i.e., William Cobbett] London, August 11, 1814.

Cited as a New Haven imprint in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. 24.

Shaw & Shoemaker 30925

Gaines, P.W. Cobbett, 67

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