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Mapping the Boundaries
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Jordan Goffin RBMS Preconference 23 June 2011
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The London Book Trade: Topographies of Print in the Metropolis from the Sixteenth Century (Oak Knoll, 2003) p. 103.
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Newport Mercury, 5 June 1769
Newport Mercury 17-24 November 1766
moved to Newport, and commenced business alone as a Merchant. Her correspondent
was an English lady of the highest rank, Mrs. Jane Eustis of Boston, who imported dry
goods from London. My mother was ever esteemed in
Newport; she did business there a great many years, while
Paul Mumford, A Defence
([Providence?]: [1827]), p. 6-7
Statewide 308 locations
(- newspapers)
162 in Providence
121 in Newport
25 elsewhere (12%), of which 20 primarily
booksellers
Newport 121 locations
45 not identified
76 identified, of which:
47 (62%) within 1/10 mile of Parade
69 (91%) in central area, of which:
44 above, in the Parade area
Providence 162 locations
21 not identified
141 identified, of which:
57 (40%) within 1/10 mile of Market H.
had conceived such a dread of anticipated oppression by a tyrannic majority in the Town Street [Main St.], that they projected a new town, to be called Westminster, which should be free from the despotic rule of old
-- Henry Crawford Dorr, The Planting and Growth of Providence (Providence: S. Rider,1882)
1768
September 1728
and Armes in company with Daniel Todd of Newport, Book-binder... did enter the dwelling of Nathanael Coggeshall and carry away six silver spoons, . . . a silver Sissers-Chain, . . . 5 silk stockings, . . . and one pair of
-- Jane Fletcher Fiske, Gleanings from Newport Court Files, 1659-1783 (Boxford, MA: Jane Fletcher Fiske, 1998) #378.
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Providence: Engraved by William Hamlin, 1803. Courtesy of the Providence Public Library. •
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