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  An account of the terrible effects of the pestilential infection in the city of Philadelphia. With an elegy on the deaths of the people. : Also a song of praise and thanksgiving, composed for those who have recovered, after having been smitten with that dreadful contagion. / By the Honourable Samuel Stearns, J.U.D. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
  Date of publication:
  1793
  

  Author(s):

  Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.
  Description:
  In verse. Author's preface dated Nov. 13, 1793. Advertisement for Stearns' The American oracle, and for the Freemason's calendar for 1794, p. 8.
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  A copy of the petition of Doctors Hyde and Fitch to the General Assembly of the state of Vermont: praying for a medical lottery. Unto which are annexed, the recommendations of sundry gentlemen; and Doctor Duncan's reasons why the prayer of said petition ought to be granted. ...
  Date of publication:
  1800
  

  Author(s):

  Hyde, Dana. ; Fitch, Russel. ; Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809. ; Duncan, Abel. and Vermont. General Assembly.
  Description:
  "Object of the lottery was to raise funds in order to publish a work by Dr. Samuel Stearns. J.C.L. Clark thinks Stearns may have written the appeal himself. He did submit a petition to the General Assembly, Oct. 18, 1798, ...
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